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The New South

CHAPTER VII
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More white men and women are teaching negroes than ever before.
The oldest university in the United States points proudly to the number of Sunday schools for negroes conducted by its students, and it is not alone in this high endeavor.

Many Southern colleges and universities are studying the negro problem from all sides and are trying to help in its solution.
The visiting nurses in the towns spend a large proportion of their time among the negroes, striving to teach hygiene and sanitation.

White men frequently lecture before negro schools.

Since the beginning of the Great War negro women have been encouraged to aid in Red Cross work.

Negroes have been appointed members of city or county committees of defense and have worked with the whites in many branches of patriotic endeavor.


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