The Denver star., 1913-11-22
NOTABLE ADVANCE:
IN FIFTY YEARS
Thrift and Industry Of Afro
Americans Praised.
.BESET BY MANY OBSTACLES

Attention Called to the Sources Which
Have Contributed to the Rise of
Race Once Ensaved and What 1t Has
Accomplished Under the influences
of Free Government.
The transformation of a people liv-
ing in one room slab huts, worshiping
in the pine brush and living in igno
rance, superstition and poverty, to a
powerful, economic group of 100000
men, women and children, paying
taxes on over S7OO,OOO,OOO worth of
property, owning $1,000 square miles
and cultivating 1OO,OOO,OOO acres of
southern land-this is the marvellous
story which is vividly told in The
Negros Progress In Fifty Years as
given in special number of the An
nails of the American Academy of Po-
litical and Social Science.
Through struggle. perseverance. faith
in God and the cooperation of the best
white people, the north and south col
ored American has made extraordi-
nary progresS-economic. social. re-
ligious and educational-in half cen
tury of freedom. This hopeful conclu-
sion is based upon facts which have
been clearly presented by selected
group of experts in education and so
cial progress-white men and colOred
men, northerncrs and southerners.
"Idealistic emotions" a happy phrase
| borrowed from Ray Stannard Baker
have given way to facts of progress
and facts of current problems. The
academy through its secretary. DR.. j.
P. Lichtenberger of the University of
Pennsylvania. has done the nation n
rare service in assembling and pre-
senting the facts SO that the busy man
of affairs in education. in Legislation.
in business rs well as the student of
education and sociology. can get a
birdseye view or an intimate knowl
edge of Negro business activities and
labor conditions affecting the common
welfare of white and colored people
in the south.
1.-The Negro's Progress In Fifty
Years" will prove valuable hand
book of information as we'll rs source
of encouragement and inspiration to
men and women who have an Intimate
knowledge of race problems in Amer
lea through years of work with the
colored race and to foreigners who
wish to know what freedom has nc-
tually meant to the Negro. This vnlu-
able publication will undoubtedly he
brought to the attention of members
OF state legislatures who have hesi
tated to vote more money for schools
because they have not been sure that
thousands of educated colored per
sons are really intelligent leaders and
law abiding followers.
The soundest reason for men and
women giving thought. time and money
to the work of securing a better ad
justment of race relationships depends
upon the fact that wherever the Negro
has been given fair chance TO de-
velop his natural abilities in contact
with the purest, wisest and most cul-
tured white people he has amply prov
ed his worth as a helpful individual.
Patience. forgiveness. true Christian
ity-these have been powerful agents
in the hands of many consecrated
southerners and northerners in dealing
with the colored race during fifty years
Of uphill climb
A list of the contributions to 1.-The
Negro's Progress In Fifty Years. will
suggest the range of information which
is now available and well worth study
ing NEGRO Population In the United
States" Thomas Jesse Jones: "profes-
sional and Skilled Occupations" Kelly
Miller: '"The Negro In Unskilled La
bor." r. r. Wright. Jr.: Development
In the Tidewater Counties of virginia" ;"
It. C. Walker: "The Negro and the I'm
migrant In the Two Americas" lanes
B. Clarke: ''The Tenant System and
Some Changes Since Emancipation" :"
Thomas ]. Edwards: Work of the
Commission of Southern Universities
on the Race Question" Charles Hill
man Brougii: Fifty Years of Free
dom: Conditions In the Sencoast Re-
gions.' Niels Christensen: "The White
Mans Debt to the Negro" l.. II Ham
mond: Negro Criminality In the
South Monroe \. Work: ''Ihe Move
ment For the Betterment OF the Negro
In Philadelphia" John r. Emlen:
Problems of citizenship" Ray Stan
nard Baker: Conditions Among Ne
groes IN the Cities.' George Edmund
Haynes: "Churches and Religious Con
ditions." J. j. Watson: Negro Organi-
Zations.' II. +. Lee: "Fifty Years Of
Negro Public Health" s p. Jones:
Negro Home Life and Standards Of
Living" Robert E. Park: Race Rcla-
tionship In the South" W. d. Wealth
erford: '"rhe Work of the .Ieanes and
Slater Funds" p. c. CALDWELL: Negro
Illiteracy IN the United States" j. r.