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EDUCATION
During the territorial period, or prior to 1819, educational advantages were limited
to a few private schools and academies. The Congressional Enabling Act granted
seventy-two sections of land "for the use of a seminary of learning", and all 16th
sections, or an equivalent, "to the inhabitants for the use of schools". The
constitution of 1819 provided that "schools and the means of education shall be
forever encouraged". In the execution of this mandate the Legislature passed a
number of Acts regulating (1) the State University and its land grant, (2) the
incorporation and regulation of academies, and (3) the management and
preservation of the 16th section funds. On 10 January, 1826, the schools of
Mobile county were regulated by an Act, through which they were organized in a
more or less effective way, but it was not until 15 February, 1854, that "a system
of free public schools" was adopted for the State. The State University was
incorporated 18 December, 1821, and on 18 April, 1831, it opened its doors for
students. The University and well-conducted academies in all parts of the State
afforded the principal means for education prior to the Public-school Act of 1854,
and even for many years after its passage. The higher education of women
received much attention, and in Alabama was located the first chartered
institution to grant diplomas to women. The last quarter of a century has
witnessed a remarkable increase of interest in education, and at present (1905)
about one-half of the State's revenues go into support of the public or common
schools and the higher institutions of learning. The State University, the head of
the system, is located at Tuscaloosa; the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
(agricultural and mechanical) established in 1872, is located at Auburn; the
Alabama Girls' Industrial School, at Montevallo; four normal colleges, for white
pupils, at Florence, Troy, Jacksonville, and Livingston; three normal schools, for
Negro pupils, at Montgomery, Tuskegee, and Normal, and nine agricultural
schools and experiment stations at Jackson, Evergreen, Abbeville, Sylacauga,
Wetumpka, Hamilton, Albertville, Athens, and Blountsville. The common schools
are directed by a State superintendent of education, and the local machinery
consists of county boards and district trustees. There are fifty separate school
districts, self-governing or regulated by special Acts, as Montgomery,
Birmingham, etc. Separate State institutions for both white and Negro deaf,
dumb, and blind are located at Talladega. A Reform School for white boys is
conducted at East Lake. A separate agricultural experiment station is maintained
at Uniontown. Expenditures have been made by the State for educational
purposes for the fiscal year ending 30 September, 1906, as follows: public, or
common, school system, $1,215,115.92; Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
$20,280.00; University of Alabama, $27,000.00; Deaf, Dumb, and Blind
institutions, $71,322.50; Alabama Girls' Industrial School, $25,000.00; Alabama
Industrial School for White Boys, $8,000.00.
In addition to the institutions maintained from the public treasury, there are the
following higher institutions supported and controlled by religious denominations:
Spring Hill College, near Mobile; St. Bernard College, Cullman; McGill Institute,
Mobile; St. Joseph's College for Negro Catechists, Montgomery (Catholic);
Southern University, Greensboro; North Alabama Conference College,
Birmingham; Athens Female College, Athens; and Alabama Conference Female
College, Tuskegee (Methodist Episcopal Church, South); Howard College, East
Lake; and Judson Female College, Marion (Baptist); Noble Institute, Anniston
(Protestant Episcopal); Synodical College for Men, Anniston, and Isbell College,
Talladega (Presbyterian). Several institutions of high grade are conducted as
private enterprises, notably the Marion Military Institute. Colleges of medicine
and pharmacy are located in Birmingham and Mobile; and a school of dentistry
at Birmingham. Theological courses are offered at Howard College (Baptist);
schools of music and art, and business colleges are in operation in Birmingham,
Montgomery, and Mobile. A law department is maintained at the State
University.
Co-education obtains in all State institutions, except in the Alabama Girls'
Industrial School and the Livingston State Normal School, There are several
schools for the higher education of Negroes in addition to the three normal
schools above noted, namely: Talladega College, Talladega; Alabama Baptist
Normal and Theological School, Selma; Academic and Industrial Institute,
Kowaliga; Calhoun Colored School, Calhoun; and Normal Industrial Institute,
Snow Hill. The Theological School at Selma, as the name implies, has a
theological department; the Stillman Institute is conducted under the auspices of
the Presbyterian Church (white) for the education of Negro preachers, and St.
Joseph's College, at Montgomery, is a Catholic institution for the training of
Negro catechists.
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