N THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY, ALONG THE LINE OF CONCEDING TO THE NEGRO HIS RELIGIOUS,
POLITICAL, AND CIVIL RIGHTS?

BY REV. J. M. COX, D. D.

[Illustration: J. M. Cox, D. D.]

JAMES MONROE COX.

James Monroe Cox was born in Chambers County, Alabama,
February 26, 1860. While he was yet a boy his parents moved
to Atlanta, Ga., and in the public schools of that city he
received his first educational training. Having a desire to
go to college and receive the best training possible for
life's work, he entered Clark University. He took high rank
in his studies, completing the classical course in 1884, and
graduated from Gammon Theological Seminary in 1886, being
the first student to receive the degree of B. D. from that
institution. The year following his graduation from Gammon
he was appointed teacher of ancient languages in Philander
Smith College, Little Rock, Ark. In the fall of 1887 he was
married to Miss Hattie W. Robinson, a young woman of culture
and refinement, who after graduating from Clark University
in 1885, taught two years in the public schools of Macon,
Ga. They have five interesting children, and their married
life has been singularly happy and helpful. After a
professorship of eleven years in Philander Smith College he
was appointed president of the institution. As president he
has served for five years, and under his administration the
school has had a strong, healthy growth, until now it
numbers almost five hundred students. A much-needed addition
to the main building has been completed at a cost of
fourteen thousand dollars, the faculty has been increased,
and through the efforts of the students he has raised some
money, which forms the nucleus of a fund for a trades
school. He is a member of the Little Rock conference of the
M. E. Church, and has twice represented his brethren as
delegate to the General Conference,--at Omaha, Neb., in 1892
and at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1896. His influence over the
young people committed to his care is great, and he is
striving to send out strong, well-rounded, Christian
characters, and thus erect monuments more enduring than
granite or marble. Last year Gammon honored him with the
degree of D. D.

The very language of our subject assumes that the Negro is entitled to
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