Show THE HE intellectual STATUS OF THE NEGRO the white people of this country are re woeful woefully lv ignorant of the true intellectual itel status of the negro rhe he southern people boast that they are re thoroughly acquainted with the ne gro but they are greatly iken their knowledge in this di action ia does not extend beyond the negroes in their employ rhey hey know absolutely absolute lv nothing of ae educated negroes of this country with ith whom they do not come in contact intact very few bew southern white people eople know that we have such men as greener crum lell langston blyden steward ateward bishops tanner and lee lowens bowens coppin reeves F J grimke and crogman Ci who do not suffer affer by comparison with the fore lost scholars sholars of the nation that e have thousands of young men ho graduated from first class colleges alleges lle that we have not a few ien who graduated from the same colleges alleges from which the greatest ien ot of the nation graduated that e have women whose literary and musical attainments are equal to lose possessed by the most cultured hite women of this country that e have over a hundred authors whose hose writings could not be di differ er satiated ted from those of white authors athons by the most critical mind we ho compare favorably with their bite peers in journalism nor do the southern whites put themselves lem selves to much trouble to gain information concerning the atel in tel status of the negro they ill not visit our schools and the other acher places where they abey could get some ame idea of the intellectuality of ie negro there are forty four schools abola in this city jacksonville I 1 la for the higher training of the groft and I 1 venture the asser lon that there are not a half ozen southern white people in jacksonville ack sonville who have ever visited lese schools there is atlanta a with her atlanta and clarke I 1 her morris brown and er spellman seminaries and her ammon school of theology and bere is nashville tenn with her isit roger boger williams and cen central J ennesser enn essee universities uni versi ties with their hundreds of bf brainy students and few white men rho have ham visited 1 thew these schools to se whether le hadren attend them I 1 no not t A 2 aoam esons in an ti sf n ed them aaro e M aa iiii d I 1 V ro afifi sc |