{"id":261,"date":"2017-10-03T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/?page_id=261"},"modified":"2017-10-03T17:56:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:56:45","slug":"1885-the-bulletin-of-atlanta-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/sources\/documents\/black-women-reformers-georgia\/1885-the-bulletin-of-atlanta-university\/","title":{"rendered":"1885: The Bulletin of Atlanta University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu\/cdm\/compoundobject\/collection\/rwwl\/id\/374\/show\/372\/rec\/2\">discussion <\/a>of the Furber Cottage in the 1885 bulletin provides insight into the middle class gender norms advanced by institutions like Atlanta University. The article describes how black women can practice running a household and thus aspire to its namesake, &#8220;a most worthy example of the type of Christian woman and housekeeper which we desire to reproduce in our girls.&#8221; (pg. 3)<\/p>\n<p>Another piece in the same edition describes the Grammar and Normal Departments at Atlanta University, noting that \u201cregular attention is given to Bible study, to temperance, physiology and hygiene\u201d and that \u201cConstant, moral and Christian instruction is given in connection with all regular work.&#8221; (pg. 3)<\/p>\n<p>A final discussion of religious conversions at Atlanta University suggests that the Southern temperance cause had attracted funding to the institution: \u201cThere have been given considerable sums for French Missions in Canada, the McCall Mission in France, Chinese work in California, Indian missions in Dakota, temperance work in the South, as well as for the support of pupils in Indian schools and in China and Turkey.\u201d (pg. 4)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/1885-the-bulletin-of-atlanta-university\/screen-shot-2017-10-03-at-1-48-58-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-262\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/files\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-03-at-1.48.58-PM-148x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/files\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-03-at-1.48.58-PM-148x300.png 148w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/files\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-03-at-1.48.58-PM.png 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/1885-the-bulletin-of-atlanta-university\/screen-shot-2017-10-03-at-1-52-42-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/files\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-03-at-1.52.42-PM-230x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/files\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-03-at-1.52.42-PM-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/files\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-03-at-1.52.42-PM.png 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This discussion of the Furber Cottage in the 1885 bulletin provides insight into the middle class gender norms advanced by institutions like Atlanta University. 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