How shall the colored youth of the South be educated?

Mayo, an African American minister from Massachusetts, addresses the educational status of African Americans in the rural South, saying that the real need is for locally based and supported schools, especially industrial arts schools, staffed by well-trained African American teachers. He sees such schools opening the way to education as well as to political and social advancement for rural southern blacks.
"Reprinted from the New England magazine, October 1897."
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