Chapter VIII

THE HISTORY OF TUSKEGEE FROM 1884 TO 1894.

Growth in Number of Students, Teachers and Officers, and Buildings during the Early Years of This Period--Hard Work of Raising Money with which to Meet the Increasing Demands--Some Providential Ways Whereby the School Was Helped Out of Tight Places Financially--Financial Assistance Rendered the School by the Citizens and Banks of Tuskegee--First Donation from the Peabody Fund--Dr. Curry Reasons That the School That Makes Extra Effort to Secure Funds is the School to be Helped--Some Statistics in Regard to the Money Raised for Tuskegee during This Period--Our Financial Embarrassment during the Fourth Year--Gen. Armstrong Comes to Our Relief by Lending Us Nearly all the Money He Possessed--Author’s Fourth Annual Report, Extracts--Generosity of Gen. J. F. B. Marshall Enables Tuskegee to Start a Sawmill--The Opening of the Night School--The Advantages it Affords Needy Students--Full Description of the Seventh Commencement or Anniversary of the School Indicating its Growth to that Time--Tuskegee’s Daily Program in Force in 1886--The Death of Mrs. Olivia Davidson Washington--An Estimate of Her Character and Worth to Tuskegee by Rev. R. C. Bedford--Further Growth of the School in Number of Students--The Visit of the Hon. Frederick Douglass to Tuskegee--His Views in Regard to Industrial Education and Other Matters Affecting the Negro Race--His Letter to Mrs. Harriett Beecher Stowe in 1853, Pleading for an Industrial College for Negroes--Author’s Marriage to Miss Maggie James Murray--Her Interest in and Labors Towards the Advancement of the Work at Tuskegee.

CHAPTER IX.

INVITED TO DELIVER LECTURE AT FISK UNIVERSITY.

Author Invited to Deliver Lecture at Fisk University Under Auspices of the Fisk Lecture Bureau--Full Description of the Occasion, an Excellent Synopsis of Lecture Published in Nashville Daily Papers--Lecture Caused Much Newspaper Comment--Account of the Lecture by the Nashville Daily American--Memphis Commercial Appeal, in an Editorial, Uses the Published Accounts of This Lecture as a Basis for an Argument for More Industrial Training for the White Race--The Editorial.