EDUCATING THE URBAN NEGRO Such an impetus was given Negro education during the period of better beginnings that some of the colored city schools then established have existed even until to-day.

Negroes learned from their white friends to educate themselves.

In the Middle and Southern States, however, much of the sentiment in favor of developing the intellect of the Negro passed away during the early part of the nineteenth century.

This reform, like many others of that day, suffered when Americans forgot the struggle for the rights of man.

Recovering from the social upheaval of the Revolution, caste soon began to claim its own.