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THE NEGRO'S

PROGRESS IN FIFTY

YEARS

THE ANNALS

VOLUME XLIX SEPTEMBER, 1913

EDITOR: EMORY R. JOHNSON ASSISTANT EDITOR: CLYDE L. KING

EDITOR BOOK DEPARTMENT: ROSWELL C. McCREA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

THOMAS CONWAY, JR. G. G. HUEBNER

S. S. HUEBNER CARL KELSEY J. P. L1CHTENBERGER L. S. ROWE

ELLERY C. STOWELL

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

36TH AND WOODLAND AVENUE

PHILADELPHIA

KRAUS REPRINT CO. Millwood, New York

1975



Copyright, 1913, by

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CONTENTS

PART I-STATISTICAL

NEGRO POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES................. 1 Thomas Jesse Jones, Ph.D., Specialist Bureau of Education, Depart-

ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C.

PART II-BUSINESS ACTIVITIES AND LABOR CONDITIONS

PROFESSIONAL AND SKITTFLED OCCUPATIONS .................. 10 Kelly Miller, LL.D., Dean, Howard University, Washington, D. C.

THE NEGRO IN UNSKTILLED LABOR ............................... 19 R. R. Wright, Jr., Ph.D., Editor, The Christian Recorder, Philadel-

phia

DEVELOPMENT IN THE TIDEWATER COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA 28 T. C. Walker, Gloucester Courthouse, Va.

THE NEGRO AND THE IMMIGRANT IN THE TWO AMERICAS.. 32 James B. Clarke, New York

THE TENANT SYSTEM AND SOME CHANGES SINCE EMANCIPA- T IO N ......................................................... .... .. 38

Thomas J. Edwards, Supervisor of Colored Public Schools of Talla- poosa County, Dadeville, Ala.

PART III-SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS

WORK OF THE COMMISSION OF SOUTHERN UNIVERSITIES ON THE RACE QUESTION ............................... ....... 47

Charles Hillman Brough, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Soci- ology, University of Arkansas; Chairman, Commission of Southern Universities on the Race Question

FIT'Y YEARS OF FREEDOM: CONDITIONS IN THE SEACOAST R EG IO N S .................................. ....... ... .......... 58

Niels Christensen, Editor and Proprietor, The Beaufort Gazette, Beaufort, S. C.

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CONTENTS

THE WHITE MAN'S DEBT TO THE NEGRO ..................... 67 L. H. Hammond, Paine College, Augusta, Ga.

NEGRO CRIMINALITY IN THE SOUTH ........................... 74 Monroe N. Work, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama

THE MOVEMENT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE NEGRO IN PHILADELPHIA.................................................. 81

John T. Emlen, Secretary and Treasurer of the Armstrong Associa- tion of Philadelphia

PROBLEMS OF CITIZENSHIP ...................................... 93 Ray Stannard Baker, Amherst, Mass.

CONDITIONS AMONG NEGROES IN THE CITIES................ 105 George Edmund Haynes, Ph.D., Director, National League on

Urban Conditions Among Negroes; Professor of Social Science, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.

CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS....................... 120 J. J. Watson, Ph.D., Macon, Ga.

NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS ........................................... 129 B. F. Lee, Jr., Field Secretary, Armstrong Association of Philadel- phia

FIFTY YEARS OF NEGRO PUBLIC HEALTH .................... 138 S. B. Jones, M.D., Resident Physician, Agricultural and Mechanical

College, Greensboro, N. C.

NEGRO HOME LIFE AND STANDARDS OF LIVING ............. 147 Robert E. Park, Wollaston, Mass.

RACE RELATIONSHIP IN THE SOUTH ........................... 164 W. D. Weatherford, Ph.D., Nashville, Tenn.

THE WORK OF THE JEANES AND SLATER FUNDS ............ 173 B. C. Caldwell, The John F. Slater Fund, New York

PART IV-EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS AND NEED

NEGRO ILLITERACY IN THE UNITED STATES................. 177 J. P. Lichtenberger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Uni-

versity of Pennsylvania

NEGRO CHILDREN IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF PHILADELPHIA 186 Howard W. Odum, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

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CONTENTS v

HIGHER EDUCATION OF NEGROES IN THE UNITED STATES. 209 Edward T. Ware, A.B., President, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS........ 219 Booker T. Washington, LL.D., Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.

THE NEGRO IN LITERATURE AND ART ....................... 233 W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Ph.D., Editor, The Crisis, New York

BOOK DEPARTMENT ........................................ 239

IN D E X .......... ........................................... .... ..... 261



CONTENTS

BOOK DEPARTMENT

NOTES

ANDERSON-The Farmer of Tomorrow (p. 239); ANDREWS-The Colonial Period (p. 239); BAGoT-Italians of Today (p. 240); BARROWS-A Sunny Life: The Biography of Samuel J. Barrows (p. 240); BOGART-Financial History of Ohio (p. 241); BOWSFIELD-Making the Farm Pay (p. 241); BRAWLEY-A Short History of the American Negro (p. 241); BROOKs-American Syndicalism (p. 242); Common School and the Negro American, The (p. 242); DEVEREAUX-

Aspects of Algeria (p. 242); GRIFFITH-The Dominion of Canada (p. 243); HEN- DERSON-The Fitness of the Environment (p. 244); HIGGINSON-Tariffs at Work (p. 244); HOWERTH-Work and Life (p. 245); McVEY-The Making of a Town (p. 245); MURDOCH-Economics as the Basis of Living Ethics (p. 245); MYERS- History as Past Ethics (p. 246); PARSONS-The Old-Fashioned Woman: Primi- tive Fancies about the Sex (p. 246); PEABODY-Merchant Venturers of Old Salem (p. 246); PENSON-The Economics of Everyday Life (p. 247); RAY-An Intro- duction to Political Parties and Practical Politics (p. 247); ROBBINS-Selected Articles on the Commission Plan of Municipal Government (p. 247); SABY-Rail- road Legislation in Minnesota, 1849 to 1875 (p. 248); UNDERWOOD-United Italy (p. 248); USHER-Pan Germanism (p. 248); WALTER-Genetics: An Introduc- tion to the Study of Heredity (p. 249); WEATHERFORD-Negro Life in the South, and Present Forces in Negro Progress (p. 250); WEBB-The Economics of Rail- road Construction (p. 250).

REVIEWS

BEARD-An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (p. 250) .........................................C. L. King

HUBBARD-The Fate of the Empires (p. 251) .............J. P. Lichtenberger KNOOP-Principles and Methods of Municipal Trading (p. 252)....C. L. King LAWTON-The Empires of the Far East, 2 vols. (p. 253) ............C. L. Jones MOORE-An Industrial History of the American People (p. 254)..E. L. Bogart MYERS-History of the Supreme Court of the United States (p. 255). .C. L. King WALLACE-Social Environment and Moral Progress (p. 255)........C. Kelsey WHITE-The First Hague Conference; Choate-The Two Hague

Conferences; Hull-The New Peace Movement (p. 256) .......A. S. Hershey WILSON-The New Freedom (p. 257) .....................B. M. Anderson, Jr. WISE-The Commonwealth of Australia (p. 259) ...................C. L. Jones

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