United Negroes

"Those Begging Joints. . . . Some folks with their mouths full of flattery call them normal schools, colleges, and even universities. . . . The 'puhfessahs' . . . will tell you without your even asking that these are 'great works'. . . . They have builded this g-r-e-a-t institution! The mouthspread would take in the mighty expanse of Columbia University, but you look around and see ... nothing to speak of in this day and year of our Lord. The next thing you know, the talk has gotten around to funds. . . ."

These hard words were written, in a recent American Mercury article, by Zora Neale Hurston, B.A., Litt. D., Rosenwald and Guggenheim fellow, about some of the U.S. schools fostered by her own Negro race. The better U.S Negro colleges, long aware of the unsavory reputation of such institutions, combined their fund-raising efforts two years ago under the sponsorship of John D. Rockefeller Jr.* This week the United Negro College Fund, headed by Sperry Corp.'s President Thomas A. Morgan, opened its second annual drive, for $1,550,000. The Fund may not include every good Negro college, but its 32 members are all intelligent, imaginative schools urgently devoted to racial uplift and interracial understanding.

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