Excerpt from Sixteenth Annual Report of the Hampton Negro Conference, 1912: The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Yearly the leaders of the colored race in agriculture, edu cation, sanitation, and public welfare, gather at Hampton Institute and in Open conference, free from all parliamentary machinery and partisan contentions, discuss the present-day, vital problems of the Negro race in the light of knowledge and with open hearts and minds. 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.