Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1911 — Field Agent of Negro College Given Aid Here. [ARTICLE]

Field Agent of Negro College Given Aid Here.

Rev. P. H. Lewis, an intelligent negro who is working as a field agent for the McKinney Polytechnic school located at McKinney, Ky., solicited aid in Rensselaer several days last week, and Sunday morning preached at the Babtlst church and in the evening at the M. E. church. At the latter meeting he secured pledges of cash contributions in the sum of $45. This Monday morning he talked at the high school, explaining the work which the college is doing. It is a training in moral and industrial pursuits for negroes. Rev. Lewis does not like the name “colored people” applied to his race, and jokingly says that they are not "colored” but were born that way. He favors the term “negro” in speaking of his people. • ;