From Servitude to Service.

Boston:: American Unitarian Association,.. Not illustrated; [2], [i–v]– vi–x, 232 pp. 8vo, black ribbed cloth, front upper corner bumped; white title lettering on front cover partially flaked away, as in most copies; some minor spotting; t.e.g. others uncut. Three African-American men and four white men write about Historic Black Institutions of Learning.Institutionally common, but scarce in trade. The flaking of the title appears to be a problem on all copies, indicating that the white ink was unstable.The Introduction was by Robert Curtis Ogden (1836–1913), a self-made businessman and philanthropist who promoted education in the Southern United States for both African-Americans and whites. He was a Trustee of Hampton which was founded by his friend, Samuel Chapman Armstrong and was an active financial supporter of Booker T. Washington, and often spoke on his behalf, c.f. the Tuskegee Institute’s Silver Anniversary Lecture at Carnegie Hall in 1906.Howard University was covered by Professor Kelly Miller (1863–1939) a Howard graduate who spent his entire teaching career at Howard. He was the first African-American to study in Johns Hopkins’. graduate school. Berea College’s one-time President, William Goodell Frost (1854–1938), the son of parents who had both served as conductors on the Underground Railroad, writes on Berea and its practice of teaching white and black students together, and the effect the Day Law had on the school. In 1904 the Kentucky Legislature had passed the Day Law—An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School—it also prohibited any institution from operating separate black and white branches within 25 miles of each other. Accordingly, Frost founded the Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school for boys in Simpsonville, Kentucky, some ninety-one miles southeast of Berea. Tuskegee. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Sr. (1879– 1950) writes about Tuskegee. Bruce was the son of the second African American U.S. Senator and a Harvard graduate. From 1902 to 1906 Bruce supervised the Academic Department of Tuskegee and taught classes. In 1899 his mother, Josephine, was appointed by Booker T. Washington as Lady Principal at Tuskegee. Hampton Institute. Hollis Burke Frissell (1852–1917) writes on Hampton. He had served as the school’s chaplain, vice-principal, and then the second principal until his death in 1917. Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University. W. E. B. Du Bois writes on Atlanta.Fisk. New Englander, the Rev. James Griswold Merrill (1840–1920), the third President of the institution from 1901–1908, covers Fisk.