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126 FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
Tke Negro Schools of Atlanta
BY EDWARD T. WARE.
Atlanta offers exceptional advantages in education for the
youth of the negro race. Its geographical location, easy accessi
bility by rail, and healthful climate, have led several denomina
tions to establish here their most important negro schools. There
are six large, well-established, private institutions representing
altogether a property amounting to about two millions of dollars,
and enrolling not less than twenty-three hundred students. A
little over half of this number are residents of Atlanta and the
rest come from far and wide throughout the South. About ten
per cent, of these students are of college grade. x
The oldest, Atlanta University, was founded under the auspices
of the American Missionary Association in 1867. It possesses a
beautiful site in the western part of the city. The plant consists
of seven well-equipped brick buildings and a large campus. This
institution is co-educational and enrolls about five hundred stu
dents. Its graduates are sought everywhere as teachers, and
furnish the majority of the Atlanta negro public school teachers.
FORTY ACRES OF PIMENTO PEPPERS, 200 BUSHELS TO ACRE, MACK REIGEL, GRIFFIN