Numerous "universities" and "colleges" were founded with this end in view.

Hampton Institute with its insistence upon fitting education to the needs of the race was unique for a time, though later it received the powerful support of Tuskegee Institute and its noted principal and founder, Booker T.Washington.The influence of this educational prophet was great in the North, whence came most of the donations for private schools.

In imitation many mushroom schools have recently added "rural" or "industrial" to their names, but few of them are doing work of great value.

Where the school appeals chiefly to the negro for support, liberal use is made of such high-sounding names as "college" and "university." The negro still thinks that the purpose of education is to free him from manual labor, and he looks with little favor upon a school which requires actual industrial training.

For the same reason he is quick to protest when the attempt is made to introduce manual training into the public schools.
Partly because of this opposition on the part of the negroes themselves, partly because industrial training is more expensive than purely academic training, and partly because such training has only recently been recognized as part of education, the South has made little provision for the industrial education of the negro at public expense.