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Half a Man

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Aldridge, Ira, 137.

Amalgamation, 168.

Andrews, Charles, civil rights of Negroes, 214.

Andrews, Chas. C., on education, 14;

on industrial opportunity, 27.

Archer, William, 172.

Arnold, Matthew, 224.

Arthur, Chester A., 23.

Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 159.

Athens, Ga., 207.

Atlanta, Negroes in occupations in, 77, 91, 93;

proportion of Negro women to men in, 148;

suffrage in, 206.

Baker, Ray Stannard, on suffrage, 205.

Benefit societies, 175.

Birthplaces, 35.

Boese, Thomas, 15.

Brokers, real estate, 45, 108.

Brown, William, 14.

Bulkley, W. L., 161.

Burke v. Bosso, 215.

Burleigh, Harry, 126.

Businesses, 106-112.

Cahill, Marie, 133.

Charity Organization Society, 158.

Chesnutt, Charles W., 181.

Chesterton, Gilbert K., 222.

Churches:

Baptist, 20, 116, 123;

Catholic, 116;

Congregational, 20;

Episcopal, 20, 113, 116, 120;

Methodist, 20, 116.

City and Suburban Homes, 41.

Civil rights:

state bill, 213;

violations of, 209, 210.

Clarkson, Thomas, 32.

Cleveland, Grover, 17.

Clinton, De Witt, 14.

Cole and Johnson, 127, 133.

Constitutional conventions, state, 11-13.

Cook, Will Marion, 136.

Cooke, Grace MacGowan, 224.

Court:

children's, 66;

magistrate's, 202-204.

Craig, Walter A., 126.

Crime:

among children, 66-68;

among adults, 189.

Dahomeyans, 131.

District Nursing Association of Brooklyn, 159.

Dix, Morgan, 25.

Domestic Service, 80-83, 149-153.

Downing, Thomas, 27.

Du Bois, W. E. B., 183.

Dudley, S. H., 128.

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, 71, 83, 131.

East Side, 42-44.

Education:

colored teacher, 17, 18;

private colored schools, 14;

public colored schools, 15-19.

Emancipation, 8.

Ewing, Quincy, 190.

Fall River, mortality among infants, 59.

Finley, H. M., 32.

Frazier, S. E., 18.

Gaynor, William J., 201.

Government service, Negroes in, 88.

Greenwich Village, 33-35.

Hale, Edward Everett, 119.

Hamilton, Alexander, 14.

Hampton Institute, 110, 119, 193.

Hansell, George H., 20.

Haynes, George E., 112.

Health Department, 40, 53, 197.

Held, Anna, 133.

Hell's Kitchen, 37, 85.

Hogan, Ernest, 134.

Horsmanden, Daniel, 7.

Housing, 34, 36, 40, 45-51.

Hunt, John H., against Negro suffrage, 13.

Janvier, Thomas, 8, 33.

Jay, John, on emancipation, 8;

interest in education, 14.

Jay, Peter, on Negro suffrage, 11.

Jennings, Elizabeth, 21.

Jonas, Rosalie M., 224.

Jones, Edward, 14.

Kean, Edmund, 137.

Kent, Chancellor, favors Negro suffrage, 11.

Kidd, Dudley, 52.

King v. Gallagher, 16.

Kingsley, Mary, 70, 113.

Lanier, Sidney, 31.

Lincoln, Charles Z., 13.

Lincoln Hospital:

attitude towards Negro doctors, 114;

graduates of, 157.

Livingston, against Negro suffrage, 11.

London, Jack, 63.

MacGowan, Alice, 224.

Manhattan Trade School, 161, 162.

Manumission society, 14.

Middle West Side, 35-38.

Miller, Kelly, 86, 147.

Morris, Gouverneur, on emancipation, 8.

Mortality:

among infants, 53-60;

death rate by diseases, 192.

Municipal service, Negroes in, 197.

Music, 125-127.

New York Conspiracy, 7.

New York Milk Committee, 54.

Newman, G., infant mortality, 55, 58.

Nurses' Settlement, 159.

Olivier, Sidney, 226.

Palmer, A. Emerson, 18.

Patten, S. N., 38.

People v. King, 213.

Phillips, Ulrich B., 101.

Phipps, Henry, 41.

Phipps tenement, 42, 51, 125.

Pittsburg Survey, 225.

Police department, 198-201.

Poole, Ernest, 84.

Population, Negro, 9;

total, 31.

Pratt, Lucy, 218.

Prostitution, 155, 156.

Ray, Charles B., 24.

Reason, Patrick, 27.

Religion (see Churches).

Riots:

draft riots, 25;

riot of 1900, 199;

riot of 1905, 199-201.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 18.

Rubinow, I. B., relation of death rate to poverty, 193.

Russell, John L., 12.

Russell, Lillian, 133.

Russia, infant mortality in, 54;

mortality and poverty, 193.

Russworm, John B., 14.

Sanger, William W., 153.

San Juan Hill, 39-42.

Schools (see Education).

Scottron, Samuel R., on industrial opportunities, 26;

on occupations, 78.

Segregation:

churches, 19;

dwelling-places, 48-50;

schools, 15-19.

Shirtwaist makers' strike, 163.

Simmons, William J., 137.

Slave ships, 32.

Slaves, brutality towards, 5;

insurrections of, 6-8.

Smith, Gerritt, 24.

Smith, James McC., 27.

Smith, William G., 14.

Stage, 127-137.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 215.

Stone, Alfred Holt, on Negro in occupations in South, 75;

color line in South, 89, 92;

irresponsibility of Negroes, 102.

Straus, Nathan, 59.

Street cars, discrimination, 21-23.

Suffrage:

past, 11-13;

present, 196;

Negro's use of suffrage, 204-208;

in Athens, Ga., 207.

Tanner, Henry, 126.

Tenements (see Housing).

Thomas, W. I., 221.

Trade-unions, 95-99.

Trinity Church, 25.

Tucker, Helen, on Negro craftsmen, 96, 98.

Underground Railroad, 24.

Upper West Side, 45-48.

Varick, James, 20.

Walker, Aida, 157.

Washington, Booker T., 184, 194.

Waterbury, Daniel S., 12.

West Indies, arrivals from, 48.

Wheeler, B. F., 20.

White, Philip A., 27.

Williams, Peter, 20.

Williams and Walker, 129-133.

Wilson, H. J., 124.

Wilson, J. G., 8.

Winterbottom, 25.

Wright, Richard R., on the city Negro, 100, 104.

Wright, Theodore S., 14.

Zangwill, Israel, 137.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Daniel Horsmanden, "New York Conspiracy, or a History of the Negro Plot."Note 2 · James Grant Wilson, "History of New York," Vol. II, p. 314.Note 5 · Thomas Boese's "Public Education in the City of New York," p. 227.Note 7 · A. Emerson Palmer, "The New York Public School."Note 9 · B. F. Wheeler, D.D., "The Varick Family."Note 10 · Geo. H. Hansell, "Reminiscences of New York Baptists."Note 1 · Harold M. Finley in Federation, May, 1908.Note 2 · Thomas Clarkson, "History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade," p. 378.Note 4 · S. N. Patten, "New Basis of Civilization," p. 52.Note 5 · Some doubt is cast upon this figure. The New York Health Department in an enumeration of its own, in 1905, found a population of 3833. ThereNote 6 · Too much cannot be said of the beneficial effect of good housing in a colored neighborhood, when under such able management as the City and Note 1 · Dudley Kidd's, "Savage Childhood," a delightful book.Note 2 · Report of the Department of Health, City of New York, 1908, pp. 844, 849. The returns for births, the report states, are incomplete.Note 4 · Third Annual Report of the New York Milk Committee, 1909.Note 5 · See G. Newman, "Infant Mortality," for a careful study of this whole subject.Note 10 · See Ulrich B. Phillips' "Origin and Growth of the Southern Black Belts," American Historical Review, July, 1906.Note 1 · On West 133d Street two former Hampton students have a prosperous little tailor and upholstering shop.Note 2 · Those interested in the Negro in business should look for an intensive study, shortly to be published, on the wage-earners and business enteNote 3 · Since going to press the new and very beautiful building of St. Philips' Episcopal Church, on W. 134th Street, has been opened. This is a fiNote 4 · Mary Kingsley has some interesting generalizations on this point. She speaks of the African mind approaching all things from a spiritual poiNote 5 · Lincoln Hospital in New York, while receiving white and colored patients, was especially designed to help the colored race. It has a traininNote 6 · See H. J. Wilson, "The Negro and Music," Outlook, Dec. 1, 1906.Note 7 · William J. Simmons's "Men of Mark."Note 1 · Quincy Ewing, "The Heart of the Race Problem," Atlantic Monthly, March, 1909.Note 2 · The statistician, Mr. I. B. Rubinow, in a discussion of high death rates (American Statistical Association, December, 1905) quotes the rate Note 7 · The following story of Athens, Georgia, told by a Northerner teaching in the South, illustrates this point. "The city of Athens was planningNote 8 · Civil Rights Law, State of New York. Chapter 14 of the Laws of 1909, being Chapter 6 of the Consolidated Laws. "Article 4.—Equal rights in pNote 1 · Lucy Pratt, "Ezekiel."Note 2 · "The world of modern intellectual life is in reality a white man's world. Few women and perhaps no blacks have entered this world in the fulNote 3 · Note especially the stories of Alice MacGowan and Grace MacGowan Cooke, and the poems of Rosalie M. Jonas.Note 4 · Careful readers of economic Negro studies by white writers will notice this tendency to look upon the Negro as belonging to a servile class.
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