The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-22
Washington's Colored People.

Wash. Cor. New York Sun.
There are $1,000 colored people in
Washington. In no city in the United
States. not even in New Orleans. is there
a larger colored population. Many of
them have settled there since the civil
war ended. A better opportunity can
be nowhere found for studying the eff.
feet Of freedom and the legislation sub
sequent to it than there. The colored
people there enjoy all the social and po-
lltical rights that law can give them
| without protest and without annoyance.
The public conveyances are open to
them. and the theaters. the jurybox,
the spoils of party power, are theirs.
Many of these men are wealthy, and
the aggre cate wealth of the colored
property-owners in the District amounts
to millions of dollars. Hundreds own
comfortable homes, and some handsome
residences: their churches are many,
including three or four buildings that
are ornaments to the city. As a class
they are Industrious, find plenty to do,
and are BEGINNING to show capacity for
thrift and saving.
But the color line is rigidly drawn in
what is known as society. Wealth,
learning, official place, give no colored
family the right or privilege of entering
the best or the commonest white society
on terms of equality or endurance.
In this respect the colored race
lives as separate and rs exclusive
"a life as in the days Of slavery.
and, as a drop Of African blood was once
held to make u man q negro, 80 now it
taints him and makes an insurmountable
barrier against social recognition. The
most striking illustration of the tendency
of the u c to initiate the white people
is seen in their own social circles, classes
and customs. First of all we find that
in this large colorad community social
lines are rs rigidlv drawn rs they are
between themselves and the white soci-
ETY. of the West End. There are three
recognized social classes anon the coll
ored people. Neither acknowledge the
others, and it is the ambition of those in
the lower to be received in the higher
circles, just rs among the whittier.
The upper crust, so to speak, consists
OF men OF wealth, learning and high po-
itical place. These people exchange
calls. with all the ceremony of the
whites, some of them driving in
their own carriages, leaving cards with
s%crupulous% attention to etiquette. They
dine with. each other, and are waited
upon by colored servants with whom
they will permit no other relations than
the leading family in the highest colorcd
society here is that Of ex-senator Bruce,
who is now the register of the treasury,
Bruce is a light-cumplexioned, intelli-
gent looking man. he is said to be worth
about a hundred thousand dollars. He
lives in a handsome house that he owns
on NJ street. It'll richly furnished. A
superb piano stands in the reception
room, and a choice collection of books
lines the wall Of the library. Mrs. Bruce
10 q handsome woman, with not a siga
G Fstlon OF her race in her face, and whose
manners are regarded as the consumma-
ton OF case, gtace and courtsey. Sne
dresses a. richly and as handsomely as
any woman in the city. In official cir
cles Mr.. Bruce is always received with
COURTESY, and as n political equal. but
there the line is drawn. Mr.. Bruce
e%ntertains his friends handsomely, and
his wife pays and receives calls from
It'd pc OF her select set with unvaryine
regard for prevailing etiquette. Anoth-
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