Research Catalog

Title

The Negro's progress in fifty years.

Publication

• Philadelphia : American Academy of Political and Social Science, 36th and Woodland Avenue, [1913]
• ©1913.

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Additional Authors

• Lichtenberger, James P. (James Pendleton), 1870-1953
• Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
• Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
• American Academy of Political and Social Science, publisher.

Description

vi, [2], 266 pages : maps; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Series Statement

Annals (American Academy of Political and Social Science) ; v. 49.

Uniform Title

Annals (American Academy of Political and Social Science) ; v. 49.

Subjects

• African Americans > Social conditions
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• African Americans > Economic conditions
• African Americans > Education
• African Americans > Progress

Genre/Form

Ink stamps (Provenance)

Note

• In printed paper wrappers.
• "Copyright, 1913, by American Academy of Political and Social Science. All rights reserved."--verso of title page.
• List of bookselling agents in Europe on verso of title page.
• "The papers in this publication were collected and edited by J. P. Lichtenberger, PhD. associate editor".--page [2], first count.
• Includes index.

Provenance (note)

• with the ink stamp "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

• pt. I. Statistical. Negro population in the United States / by Thomas Jesse Jones.
• pt. II. Business activities and labor conditions: Professional and skilled operations / Kelly Miller -- The negro in unskilled labor / R.R. Wright, Jr. -- Development in the tidewater counties of Virginia / T.C. Walker -- The negro and the immigrant in the two Americas / James B. Clarke -- The tenant system and some changes since emancipation // Thomas J. Edwards.
• pt. III. Social conditions and problems: Work of the Commission of southern universities on the race question / Charles Hillman Brough -- Fifty years of freedom: conditions in the seacoast regions / Niels Christensen -- The white man's debt to the negro / L.H. Hammond -- Negro criminality in the South / Monroe N. Work -- The movement for the betterment of the negro in Philadelphia / John T. Emlen -- Problems of citizenship / Ray Stannard Baker -- Conditions among negroes in the cities / George Edmund Haynes -- Churches and religious conditions / J.J. Watson -- Negro organizations / B.F. Lee, Jr. -- Fifty years of negro public health / S.B. Jones -- Negro home life and standards of living / Robert E. Park -- Race relationship in the South / W.D. Weatherford -- The work of the Jeanes and Slater funds / B.C. Caldwell.
• pt. IV. Educational progress and need: Negro illiteracy in the United States / J.P. Lichtenberger -- Negro children in the public schools of Philadelphia / Howard W. Odum -- Higher education of negroes in the United States / Edward T. Ware -- Industrial education and the public schools / Booker T. Washington -- The negro in literature and art / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois -- Book department -- Index.

Call Number

Sc 309.173-A (American Academy of Political and Social Science. Negro's progress in fifty years)

LCCN

13022311

OCLC

• 304532
• NYPGR304532-B

Title

The Negro's progress in fifty years.

Publisher

Philadelphia : American Academy of Political and Social Science, 36th and Woodland Avenue, [1913]

Copyright Date

©1913.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Annals (American Academy of Political and Social Science) ; v. 49.

Annals (American Academy of Political and Social Science) ; v. 49.

Provenance

Copy in Sc 309.173-A (accession no. B880419) with the ink stamp "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Lichtenberger, James P. (James Pendleton), 1870-1953, editor.

American Academy of Political and Social Science, publisher.

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Industrial education and the public schools. 1913.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Negro in literature and art. 1913.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 309.173-A (American Academy of Political and Social Science. Negro's progress in fifty years)