Efforts to Aid the Negro
Title
Efforts to Aid the Negro
Creator
Unknown
Identifier
PI000000
Date
No date
Description
Undated description of efforts to aid African-Americans through the Bureau of Education of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture.
Source
US National Archives and Records Administration
130/68/3/00
130/68/3/00
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
African-Americans--segregation
Contributor
Althea Cupo
Maria Matlock
Language
English
Provenance
Digital copy acquired from federal archives by previous WWPL Archivist, Heidi Hackford.
Text
The Government's direct efforts to aid the negro are made through the Bureau of Education, of the Department of the Interior, and through the Department of Agriculture, as follows:
Bureau of Education:
Exact data of the negro's needs have been obtained by a first hand investigation covering a period of three years. Based on this investigation the Bureau of Education now provides definite recommendations and program for the work in public schools; and renders aid and counsel to the many worthy private schools and institutions. As a result a great many of these schools have made excellent improvement and organization. Special effort is made by the Bureau to induce negro schools to teach agriculture and manual training.
The Division of Home Economics of the Bureau of Education is teaching the negro woman principles of hygiene and sanitation, of food values, and of good housekeeping and home making in all its particulars, thereby not only enabling them to better their own home conditions, but also fitting them for outside employment if they desire it.
The Division of School and Home Gardening of the Bureau of Education is accomplishing valuable results in inducing negro children to cultivate gardens in their yards and in vacant lots near their houses, teaching them how to raise vegetables and giving them aid in many ways.
The Department of Agriculture:
The Department of Agriculture has given the same assistance to the negro farmer as to the white farmer. In sections where the negro population predominates negro demonstrators, trained by the Government, are used. Direct assistance, as well as instruction, is given and very valuable results have been obtained. The children are taken care of through "Farm Makers' Clubs" for boys, and "Home Makers' Clubs" for girls, exactly the same attention being given to these as to the similar clubs for white children.
In addition to the foregoing, it is almost needless to state that the American negro is entitled to receive, and does receive, whatever assistance any Department of the Government is extending to white people.
Bureau of Education:
Exact data of the negro's needs have been obtained by a first hand investigation covering a period of three years. Based on this investigation the Bureau of Education now provides definite recommendations and program for the work in public schools; and renders aid and counsel to the many worthy private schools and institutions. As a result a great many of these schools have made excellent improvement and organization. Special effort is made by the Bureau to induce negro schools to teach agriculture and manual training.
The Division of Home Economics of the Bureau of Education is teaching the negro woman principles of hygiene and sanitation, of food values, and of good housekeeping and home making in all its particulars, thereby not only enabling them to better their own home conditions, but also fitting them for outside employment if they desire it.
The Division of School and Home Gardening of the Bureau of Education is accomplishing valuable results in inducing negro children to cultivate gardens in their yards and in vacant lots near their houses, teaching them how to raise vegetables and giving them aid in many ways.
The Department of Agriculture:
The Department of Agriculture has given the same assistance to the negro farmer as to the white farmer. In sections where the negro population predominates negro demonstrators, trained by the Government, are used. Direct assistance, as well as instruction, is given and very valuable results have been obtained. The children are taken care of through "Farm Makers' Clubs" for boys, and "Home Makers' Clubs" for girls, exactly the same attention being given to these as to the similar clubs for white children.
In addition to the foregoing, it is almost needless to state that the American negro is entitled to receive, and does receive, whatever assistance any Department of the Government is extending to white people.
Original Format
Memorandum
Files
Collection
Citation
Unknown , “Efforts to Aid the Negro,” No date, PI000000, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.