The Educated Negro and His Mission

Cromwell set up the ANA because he was convinced that his race needed an educated gentry. Ferris: It was to offer a counterweight to Tuskegee, a selection of hand-picked scholars who could inspire other members of the race. For some black people, industrial education would be entirely appropriate, says Ferris. But Archibald Grimke argues that southern states were lagging behind the northern ones in education.