PHILADELPHIA

Copyright, 1913, by

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

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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 SKILLED OCCUPATIONS...........

10

Kelly Miller, LL.D., Dean, Howard University, Washington, D. C.

THE NEGRO IN UNSKILLED 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-

TION.....

Thomas J. Edwards, Supervisor of Colored Public Schools of Talla-

poosa County, Dadeville, Ala.

38

PART III-SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS

WORK OF THE COMMISSION OF SOUTHERN UNIVERSITIES ON

THE RACE QUESTION

Charles Hillman Brough, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Soci-

ology, University of Arkansas; Chairman, Commission of Southern

Universities on the Race Question

FIFTY YEARS OF FREEDOM: CONDITIONS IN THE SEACOAST

REGIONS..

Niels Christensen, Editor and Proprietor, The Beaufort Gazette,

Beaufort, S. C.

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58

THE WHITE MAN'S DEBT TO THE NEGRO.

L. H. Hammond, Paine College, Augusta, Ga.

67

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

X PROBLEMS OF CITIZENSHIP................

93

Ray Stannard Baker, Amherst, Mass.

CONDITIONS AMONG NEGROES IN THE CITIES....

....

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..

105

120

J. J. Watson, Ph.D., Macon, Ga.

NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS.

129

B. F. Lee, Jr., Field Secretary, Armstrong Association of Philadel-

phia

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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................

Robert E. Park, Wollaston, Mass.

→ RACE RELATIONSHIP IN THE SOUTH...

W. D. Weatherford, Ph.D., Nashville, Tenn.

THE WORK OF THE JEANES AND SLATER FUNDS...........

B. C. Caldwell, The John F. Slater Fund, New York

PART IV-EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS AND NEED

NEGRO ILLITERACY IN THE UNITED STATES.....

J. P. Lichtenberger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Uni-

versity of Pennsylvania

177

NEGRO CHILDREN IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF PHILADELPHIA 186

Howard W. Odum, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

HIGHER EDUCATION OF NEGROES IN THE UNITED STATES.. 209

Edward T. Ware, A.B., President, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.

219

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS..

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..

INDEX.....

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