. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. school problems. The practical trend of his ef-forts actuated his teachers, and solid substantial training andteaching resulted. During the public school period he was associated with suchefficient superintendents as J. Ormond Wilson and W. B. Powell,respectively superintendents of the white schools of the Districtof Columbia. Mr. Wilson, as is well known, was a great or-ganizer; Mr. Powell, a great thinker, and through his addressesa stimulator of the teachers. Mr. Cook was
. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. school problems. The practical trend of his ef-forts actuated his teachers, and solid substantial training andteaching resulted. During the public school period he was associated with suchefficient superintendents as J. Ormond Wilson and W. B. Powell,respectively superintendents of the white schools of the Districtof Columbia. Mr. Wilson, as is well known, was a great or-ganizer; Mr. Powell, a great thinker, and through his addressesa stimulator of the teachers. Mr. Cook was both an organizerand thinker, but not a talker. By intimate relationship withthe teachers in the schoolroom and by frequent conferences withthem in his office, he stimulated and inspired them. His execu-tive ability was notable as witnessed by the successful manage-ment of a rapidly developing system of schools. The selectionof sites for new schools, all financial matters, requisitions for allbooks and supplies, and innumerable other details devolved uponhis office. Thus he was both business manager and Pvhhic Lii>^:AKY :Ji-; ; ,.,i;N[;0X8 :-J XXXV EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN The career of Edward Wilmot Blyden, who died February 7,1912, at Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, illustrates verygraphically several facts. First, the difficulties which theAmerican Negro had to encounter in the last half of the nine-teenth century; Second, how these frequently stimulated theactivities of the individual who is determined to make the bestof his opportunities; Third, how they become at times like withesof straw as handicaps either to dwarf the intellectual, moral orphysical growth of the individual. Blyden was born August 3, 1832, on the Island of St. Thomasin the Danish West Indies. His parents were of pure Negrostock, of the Eboe tribe and were members of the Dutch Re-formed Church. Rev, John P. Knox, Blydens teacher, anAmerican Missionary of the same denomination per
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