Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Proceedings of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund: For the Education of Freedmen, 1898
In Norfolk, twenty-one young women, eleven of them Hampton gradu ates, have volunteered for missionary work among the poor, and have taken time to attend classes in cooking and sewing that have been started there, in order to fit themselves more thoroughly for this work among their own race. Mothers' meetings have been held in the city and suburbs in which instruction in the care of the home and the children has been intelligently given. Eight families have been persuaded to come out from the more closely settled parts of the city and to make homes in the suburbs where they could live more decently and bring up their children in a more orderly manner.
In the city of Lynchburg the most important positions in the negro public schools have been occupied by Hampton graduates for many years. They have associated themselves together for missionary work, have started a home for aged women, a night school for working girls and another for men, all of which have been largely supported by the people themselves.
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