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School For Negroes.Special to Independent.Little Rock, March 3.—There is in Phillips county a thriving | school for negroes, that was founded in 1864 by the Society of Friends. Leo M. Favrot, associate supervisor of ruralschools, has just returned from an inspection of the school, known as Southland College, located ten miles from Helena. It was originally organized as an asylum for colored orphan children in Helena, but in 1866 it | was removed to the country.' At the suggestion of Con. Bentzoni, of the 56th Regiment j U. S. C. I., each private soldier and officer of the regiment donated one day’s pay for the purchase of a site. With the $400 thus raised, twenty acres of land was purchased, and this has been well improved since.Harry C. Wolford, president of the school, and most of the fac-ulty, are white. The present attendance is more than 400, of I ; whom more than 200 are board- 1 ing pupils, some of them com- ( ing from Mississippi. A thir- i | teen year course of study is pro- : vided, including a normal course 1 and manual training.
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Newport Daily Independent
Newport, Arkansas, US
Tue, Mar 03, 1914
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