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Excerpt from Five Letters of the University Commission on Southern Race Questions, 1927 Whether by original intention or not, the Occasional Papers published by the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund will be found to show quite fairly the series of degrees in the progress made in the education of the colored children of the South. The first, giving an account of the establishment of the Slater Fund in 18-82, was published as far back as the year 1894. Incidentally too these publications mark, between the lines, certain steps in the process of racial relations. It seems therefore not inappropriate to include in the list the present series of Five Letters, which had considerable circulation at the time of publication and were widely quoted, but have not hitherto been brought together. They were addressed prima rily to college students. They are brief and simple, but were prepared with great care and may be said to state fairly the best sentiment on the subjects dealt with. I have ventured to add an Introductory Address which I made at a meeting held in Knoxville, not that it has any special value except as per haps glimpsing the temper of the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.