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Domestic service classes, Institute for Colored Youth, Cheyney, PA, 1905.
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Images of women posing, while holding brooms and other domestic chore items

Credit: From Reminiscences, School Life, and Hints on Teaching, by Fanny Jackson-Coppin, Philadelphia, Pa. A.M.E. Book Concern, 1913

By the early twentieth century, the Institute's curriculum reflected a strong practical education for those not yet prepared for the more academically demanding normal school curriculum. This model reflected the strong influence of civil rights leaders like Booker T. Washington, who counseled manually training as the best route to economic security in the Jim Crow era.

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