SIXTY YEARS OF PROGRESS, 1.
SURVEY OF EVENTS AFFECTING THE NEGRO, 1922-1924, 2-174.
Economic Progress-Increase Property-holding by Negroes, 2; Negro Farmers Suc-
cessfully Use Machinery, 3; Need For Improvement Conditions Negro Farmers, 3; Federal
Farm Loans 4; Migration of the Negro, 5-10; The Negro and Trades Unions, 11-14; Pro-
gress In Business Development, 14-17; Inventions by Negroes, 1922-1924, 17-18.
Racial Cooperation-Promotion of the Study of Race Relations, 18-20; The Churches
and Race Relations, 20-23; Work of the Commission on Interracial Coperation, 23-25;
Better Racial Understanding Promoted, 25; The Georgia Committee on Race Relations,
26; Declaration North Carolina Women, 27; Texas Women Ask For Standards and Treat-
ment For Negroes as For Whites, 28; Editors, Leading Southern Papers Issue State-
ment Asking For Cooperation Between the Races in the South, 28; Race Relations in the
North, 29-31.
Religious Work-Largest Protestant Church in the World, 31; Negro Conferences
Contribute Almost $2,000,000 to Centenary Fund, 32; Recommendations on Organic Union
of A. M. E., A. M. E. Z., and C. M. E. Churches, 33; Southern Baptist Convention,
National Baptist Convention Cooperates to Establish Negro Theological Seminary, 33;
Effect Proposed Union, M. E. Church and M. E. Church South on Negro Members, M. E.
Church, 34; Negroes Receive Wider Recognition in Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Work,
35-36.
Work of Women, 37-38.
Education Teachers Associations, 38-39; Summer Schools, 39; Improvement Public
Schools, 39-43; Negroes Increase Support For Their Own Education, 43; Increase Facili-
ties For Higher Education, 43; Bequests For Education, 44; Scholarship and Other Distinc-
tions, 45-56.
Sports-Negroes Win Honors in Athletics, 56-57.
Politics-Negro Policemen Urged as Means of Preventing Racial Friction, 57; Negroes
Appointed to Political Offices, 58; Negro Press and President Coolidge's First Message to
Congress, 59; Negro National Party, 61; Negro Members State Legislatures, 62; Negroes
Divide Their Votes, 62; National Negro Democratic Convention, 63; Democratic Party
Makes Efforts to Gain Negro Votes, 64; Larger Representation Through Political Ap-
pointments Asked, 65; Efforts to Build Up White Republican Party in South, 66; Negro
Delegates to National Republican Convention, 66-67; Negro Press and Party Platform
67; The Eighteenth Amendment, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and Law
Enforcement, 69; Women and Politics, 70; The Negro and the Democratic White Primary
Racial Consciousness-Black Mammy Monument, 74; Social Equality, 75; Pride of
Race, 76; Creed of American Negro Youth, 76; The New Negro, 77; This is not a White
Man's Country, 77; Terms Objectionable to Negroes, 78-79; Objections to Methods O.
Handling the Negro in Newspaper Headlines, 79; Negroes Doing Something Out of Ordi-
nary Not to be Regarded as a Joke, 80; Negro Actors in Serious Plays, 80; Reasons for
and Against the Term Negro, 81-83; Third Pan-African Congress, 84-85.
Discriminations The Negro and Civil Rights, 85-86; Court Decisions Concerning
When a Person is White and is not White, 87-88; The Negro and Jim Crow Car Laws,
89-92; Negro Secret Societies Restrained From Using Emblems and Insignias of White
Secret Societies, 91-92; Residential Segregation, 94-99.
Lynching-Lynching Record for 1922, 99; Growing Sentiment in South Against Lynch-
ing, 99-100; Filibuster Defeats Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, 100; Southern White Women
Pass Resolutions Against Lynching Evil, 101; Responsibility Punishment Lynchers Rests
Solely on States, 102; Ways Christian Citizens May Help Abolish Lynching, 102; Southern
Educators Appeal For Enforcement of Law, 103; Federal Commission on Lynching Pro-
posed, 104; New Jersey Lynching Law, 104; Lynching Record, 1923, 106; When in Doubt
Accuse a Negro, 107; Lynching Record, 1924, 108.
Riots Sentences Elaine Rioters Commuted, 108; Clemency Granted Houston Rioters,
Literature On The Negro-The Negro in Literature, 1922-1924, 109-113; Books by
White Persons Relating to Negroes, 113-124.
Race Problem In West Indies, United States Occupation Haiti and Santo Domingo,
124-129; Conditions in the Virgin Islands, 129-131; English and French Way Dealing With
Race Problem, 131-134; Population West Indian Island, 134.
Race Problem in Africa-General Aspects Situation in Africa, 136-139; The Problem
in East Africa, 139-140; The Problem in South Africa, 141-144; The Labour Problem in
South Africa, 144-146; Policies With Reference to the Land, 146-151; Registration of Na-
tives, 151-152; The Liquor Problem, 152; Native Education in South Africa, 152-154;
Agricultural Improvement, 154; Health Improvement, 155; Advantages In Recognition of Native Laws, 155; Unequal Justice, 156; Native Affairs Commission Conferences With
Natives, 156-158; Church Conference on Native Affairs, 158-161; Native Welfare Societies, 161; The Native and the Franchise, 162-165; Native National Congress Proceedings, 165-
166; The Coloured People of South Africa, 166; West Africa and Administration of Justice
167; West African Natives in Business, Professions and Trades, 167; Skilled Labour Prob-
lem in Nigeria, 168; Larger Participation in Native Affairs, 169; College For Natives Estab-
lished on Gold Coast, 170; National Congress of British West Africa Holds Second Meet-
ing, 170-174; Non-White Populations South Africa Increasing More Rapidly Than White
Population, 174; Mission Work in Africa, 175.
MISSIONARY SOCIETIES WORKING IN AFRICA,
PERIODICALS PUBLISHED BY AND FOR AFRICANS, 178.
POSSESSIONS OF EUROPEAN POWERS IN NEGRO AFRICA, 179.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ON AFRICA, 180-184.
POPULATION OF THE EARTH BY RACES, 184.
WHERE BLACK MEN GOVERN, 184-187.
Abyssinia, 184; Liberia, 185; Haiti, 186; Santo Domingo, 187.
THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, 188.
NEGROES AS EXPLORERS, 189-191.
SLAVERY IN THE COLONIES, 191-192.
SLAVERY IN THE STATES, 192-195.
CIVIL STATUS OF THE SLAVE AND FREE NEGRO, 195-212.
Status of the Slave, 195-203; Status of the Free Negro, 203-212.
SLAVE INSURRECTIONS, 213-215.
ABOLITION AGITATION IN THE COLONIES, 215-216.
ABOLITION AGITATION IN THE STATES, 216-217.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, 217.
FREE AND SLAVE NEGRO POPULATION, 1790 to 1860, 225-226.
DATE OF ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN VARIOUS AMERICAN COUNTRIES, 226.
THE NEGRO AND CIVIL RIGHTS, 227-243.
Status Free Negro at Beginning of Civil War, 227; Freedmen Given Status Free Negro
227; Occupations, Freedmen Restricted, 228; Labor Contracts, 220; Severe Apprentice,
Laws, 220; Vagrancy Laws, 230; Each State Made Liable to Support Own Paupers, 230;
Constitutional Amendments, 231; Federal Legislation, 231; State Legislation, 233; Separa-
tion of Races in Public Conveyances and in Schools, 233-234; Negro Suffrage Before Civil
War, 234-236; The Negro and Reconstruction, 235-238; Negro Members of Constitutional
Conventions, 238; Negro Suffrage, 1865-1870, 238; Negro Members of Some Reconstruc-
tion Legislatures, 239; Negro Suffrage, 1870-1890, 239; Negro Suffrage, 1890-1915, 240-241
Legal Definition of a Negro, 241; Miscegenation, 241-243.
OFFICE HOLDING, 243-245.
Former Members of Congress, 243; First Negro Members of a State Legislature, 244;
Colored Persons Holding Federal Offices, 244; Colored Persons in the Diplomatic and Con-
sular Service, 244; Negro Delegates to Republican National Convention, 245.
NEGRO SOLDIERS.
In the Revolutionary War, 245-246; In the War of 1812, 246-247; In Civil War, 247-
249; In Regular Army, 249; In Spanish-American War, 249; The Carrizal Incident, 249;
In World War, 250-253; Negroes at West Point, 253; Negroes at Annapolis, 253; Negro
Officers in the Regular Army, 253.
CARNEGIE HERO FUND COMMISSION AWARDS, 253-256.
THE CHURCH AMONG NEGROES, 256-284.
First Churches Organized, 256-257; Noted Negro Preachers, 257-261; Denominational
Statistics, 261-263; Bishops, General Officers, etc. Various Denominations, 263-267; Com-
mission, Federal Council of Churches on Race Relations, 267; Commission on Interracial
Cooperation, 268-269; Negro Priests in the Catholic Church, 269; Religious Sisterhoods
and Brotherhoods, 270-271; Saint Benedict, The Moor, 271; Martyrs of Uganda, 271;
Catholic Negro Work, 272-275; Young Men's Christian Association Among Negroes, 275-
280; Young Women's Christian Association Among Negroes, 281-282; National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union Work Among Colored People, 282; Work American Baptist,
Publication Society Among Negroes, 282; Salvation Army and the Negro, 282; Work
American Bible Society Among Negroes, 283; Work, American Sunday School Union,
Among Negroes, 283; Work Among Negroes, Board National Missions Presbyterian Church
in the U. Š. A., 283.
Education Before the Civil War, 284-285; Education During the Civil War and Re-
construction Period, 285-286; Dates of Establishment of Public School Systems in Southern
States, 287; Present Educational Policy, 287; State Supervisors, Negro Rural Schools,
288; Policy With Reference to Secondary and Higher Schools, 289. Boards of White De-
nominations Carrying on Educational Work Among Negroes in United States, 289-291;
Public Schools, 291-295; Illiteracy, 295-299; Secondary, Private and Higher Education,
299-301; Finances of Negro Schools, 301-303; Educational Funds, 303-323; Libraries for
Negroes, 323-324; Educational Institutions, 325-341.
The Future of Negro Music, 342; Negroes Creative Genius, 342; Negro Folk Songs,
342; Origin of Ragtime Music, 343; Origin of Jazz Music, 343; How Certain Songs Originated,
344; Some Composers of Music, 344-347; Some Singers of Prominence, 347-348; Instru-
mentalists, 348-350.
PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, POETS AND ACTORS, 350-357.
Per Cent in Gainful Occupations, 362; Number Negroes in Each Main Class Occupa-
tions, 362; Proportion Principal Classes Population in Gainful Occupations, 362; Per Cent Negroes Total Persons in Each of Main Classes of Occupations, 362; Negroes Increasing
Number Negro Farmers, 369; Distribution by Tenure Negro Farm Operators, 369;
Value Farm Property, 369; Decrease Negro Farmers in North, 370; Increase in South and
West, 370; Increase and Decrease Negro Farmers by States, 370; Increase and Decrease
White and Negro Farmers Show Similar Tendencies, 371-373; Total Negro Farmers by
States, 374; Tenure Negro Farmers by States, 375-377; Tenure by States Farms Operated
by Negroes, 378-379; Average Acreage, Improved Land and Value Land and Buildings Per-
Farm, 380; Amount Principal Crops Raised by Negro Farmers, 380; Distribution on Per-
centage Basis Principal Crops Raised by Negro Farmers, 380; Federal Farm Loans, 380-381;
Farm Demonstration Work Improves Negro Farming, 381; List Agents and Home Eco-
nomic Workers Under United States Farm Demonstration Work, 382-385.
NEGRO TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS, 385-387.
Sixty Years Business Progress, 387-390; Business Enterprises in Which 200 or More
Negroes Are Engaged, 390-391; Land Marks in Negro Business Enterprises, 391; Negro
Insurance Companies, 391-393; Negro Banks, 393-395.
CRIME, 395-403.
Differences in Number of Prisoners Considered Vitiate Comparison Crime Rates, 395;
Crime Rates Higher in the North Than in the South, 396; Proportion Commitments to
Prisons, Whites and Negroes Greater North Than South, 396; Negro Crime Rate Lower
Than Rate For Emigrant Races, 396; Juvenile Delinquents Per 100,000 of Population,
397; Lynchings, 397-402; Institutions in South For Negro Juvenile Delinquents, 403.
HEALTH, 403-423.
Mortality Statistics, 403-410; Birth Statistics, 410-411: Number of Deaths, Per 100,000
of Population From Certain Diseases, 412; Estimated Annual Cost of Sickness and Death Among Negroes in Cities and States of the South, 413; Negro Physicians, 414; Medical Associations, 414-416; Hospitals and Nurse Training Schools, 416-420; Necrology, 1922- 1924, 420-423.
Population Each Census Year, 1790-1910, 423; Population United States and Outlying
Possessions, 424; Percentage of Negroes in Total Population, 425-426; Black and Mulatto
Population, 427; Age Distribution, 432; Population by Sex, 432; Marital Conditions, 433;
Negro Population by States, 435; Total and Negro Population in the North and in the
South, 436; Migration Native Negro Population, 437; Center of Negro Population, 440;
Movement to Cities, 442; States, Counties and Cities Having Largest Number and Per-
centage of Negroes, 443; Counties Having Half or of More Their Population Negroes,
445; Cities Havin, 2,000 or More Negroes, 448; Total and Negro Population in Cities
Having 100,000 Inhabitants or More, 451; Total and Negro Population in cities having
from 25,000 to 100,000 Inhabitants 452; Males and Females of Voting Age, 456.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, 458-460.
Educational, 458; For Professional Advancement, 459; For Economic Advancement,
458; For Political Advancement, 459; In the Interest of Negro Women, 459; For General
Advancement, 459
SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS FOR NEGROES, DIRECTORY OF, 460-461.
COMMUNITY SERVICE WORK FOR NEGROES, 461.
FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS, 462-465.
General Statement Concerning, 462; Principal Organizations, 463-465.
NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY, 465-472.
First Negro Newspapers, 465; Number Negro Newspapers, 465; List of Monthlies,
Bi-Monthlies and Quarterlies, 465; List of Weeklies, 466-472; News Agencies, 472.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES, 473-510.
The Negro and Slavery-Slave Trade, 473; Slavery in Particular States, 474; Economic
and Social Conditions in the South, 474; Abolition, 475; Biographies, Anti-Slavery Men,
475; Slave Narratives, 476; Pro-Slavery Discussions, 476; Histories Treating of Slavery
Controversy, 476; The Free Negro and Colonization, 477.
Present Conditions, 478; Race Relations. Books on, 480; Negro Migration, Books on, Special Studies and Pubications, 481-483; List of Publications Committee of Twelve,
481; John Hopkins University Studies, 481; Atlanta University Studies, 481; Phelps-
Stokes Fellowship Studies, 482; Studies of Negro Groups, etc., 482; Occasional Papers,
John F. Slater Fund, 482; Publications of American Negro Academy, 483.
Folk Songs and Folklore, 483-485; Folk Songs, 483; Folklore, American, 484; Negro
Dialect, 485.
Some Books by Negro Writers, 486-488; Law, 486; History, 486; Biography, 486; Edu-
cation, 487; Religion, 487; Fiction 487; Poetry, 488.
Articles in Current Periodica's on the Negro, 488-510; Education, 488; Economic Con-
ditions, 491; Migration, 493; Health and Sanitation, 494; Religion, 496; Negro in the World
War, 497; Suffrage, 497; Crime, Lynchings and Riots, 499; Pamphlets on Lynching, 502;
Race Problem, 502; Race Relations, 507; Race and Mental Ability 508.
January first, 1866, marked the beginning of the opportunity for Negroes in every part of the United States to enter upon an era of progress; for thirteen days before this date, this is, on December 18th, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment, declaring slavery in the United States abolished, was adopted. It is not generally recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 applied only to those states and sections of states then in rebellion against the Federal Government. The result was that there were almost one million slaves who were "for the present left precisely as though this proclamation was not issued." The decree of December 18th, 1865, however, freed all. On or about the first day of the following January the late masters and the late slaves entered into an agreement whereby the former were to furnish the land and the latter the labor to the end that both might live and prosper. Thus white and black set to work to rebuild the wasted and devasted South. In this rebuilding the Negro not only tilled the soil of the South, cleared her forests and helped to build her cities but in spite of many disadvantages he has himself made a most remarkable progress. The extent of this progress is shown in what follows:
Survey of Events Affecting Negroes
Large Increase
In Property Holdings
Made by Negroes.
The most recent reports on property owning show that in 1923 Negroes in Georgia owned 1,632,863 acres of land assessed at $15,567,057. The value of their city property was $20,179,465; the total assessed valuation of all their property was $48,233,541. The Negroes of Virginia in 1922 owned 1,920,485 acres of land assessed at $28,899,656. The value of their city property in 1921 was $18,574,120; in 1923 its value was $20,065,409. The total valuation of all their property in 1923 was $68,354,407. The Negroes of North Carolina in 1923 owned 1,652,389 acres of land assessed at $48,343,205. The value of their city property was $30,332,118; the total assessed valuation of all their property was $102,435,004
Along with the movement of Negroes to cities has come a marked increase in the amount of property which they own in cities. Reports on property holding in Georgia and Virginia indicate that there is a tendency for Negroes to purchase less farm land than formerly. This probable decrease in the acquisition of rural property is offset, however, by the increase in the acquisition of property in urban centers.
There is, on the whole, an increase in the purchasing of property by Negroes. Through purchases and rises in value, property holdings of Negroes of the country are increasing each year by probably more than fifty million dollars. The value of property owned by the Negroes of the United States is now over $1,800,000,000. It is still true that the lands which they own amount to more than 22,000,000 acres or 34,000 square miles, an area greater than that of the five New England States, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Income From 12 Acre Farm
$6,000 A Year.
In the early part of 1924 extensive publicity was given to the fact that Riley Rogers, a Negro farmer, living near Lawrence, Kansas, had an income of $6,000 a year from a 12 acre farm. Truck gardening is his specialty. His aim is not to supply everything the market demands. While he raises irish potatoes, sweet corn, cauliflower, etc., his specialty is cabbage, tomatoes and cucumbers. Practically all of his produce is sold to local stores. He has 4 1-2 acres under irrigation. The returns from the products of this plot was $4,500 for one year. His four sons and two daughters are graduates of the Kansas State University.
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