The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-11-14
NOTABLE ADVANCE
| IN FIFTY YEARS
Thrift and Industry Of Afro
Americans Praised.
BESET BY MANY OBSTACLES

BESET BY MANY OBSTACLES
Attention Called to the Sources Which
Have Contributed to the Rise Of a
Race Once Enslaved and What II 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 10,0O0.O0O
men. women and children, paying
taxes on over $7OO.OOO.OOO worth of
property. owning $1,000 square miles
md cultivating 1OO,000OO0 acres of
Southern land-this IL the marvellous
story which is vividly told in "The
Eegro's Progress In Fifty Years." US
given In a special number Of the An
halls 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
bred American has made extraOrdi-
nary progress-economlc. social. re-
ligious and educational-in half Gen.
fury Of freedom. This hopeful conclu-
sion Is based upon facts which have
been clearly presented by a selected
group Of experts in education and So
cial progress-whlte men and colored
men. northerners and southerners.
"Idealistic emotions" n happy phrase
borrowed from Ray Stannurd 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 a
rare service in assembling nnd 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 q
birdseye view or an intimate knowi.
edge Of Negro business activities and
labor conditions affecting the common
welfare of white and colored people
In the south. ~-...... %-
"The Negroes Progress In Fifty
Years" will prove Il valuable hand.
book Of information az well Az 4, source
Of encouragement and inspiration to
men and women who have nn intimate
knowledge Of race problems In Amer.
ica 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 valn-
able publication will undoubtedly he
brought to the attention OF members
Of state legislatures who have lipsi.
t0ted 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 better nd.
jnstment Of race relationships depends
upon the fact that wherever the Negro
iins been given fair chance t0 de-
relop his natural abilities In contact
with the purest. wisest and most cul-
tured white people he hns amply prov
I'd his worth as a helpful individual.
patience. forgiveness. true Christian
ity-these hnve been powerful agents
in the hands Of many consecrnted
southerners and horthcrners In dealing
with the coIored race during fifty years
of uphill climb.
A list Of the contributions to "The
Negroes Progress In Fifty Years. will
stiggest the range Of information which
Ia now available and well worth study
ing. "Negro Population In the United
States" Thomas Jesse Jones: "Profes-
sionai and Skilled Occupations" Kelly
Miller: "The Negro In Unskilled La.
bor.". n. r. Wright. Jr.: development
In the Tidewater Counties OF Virginia.
r. c. Walker: 1.-THE Negro and the I'M
migrant In the Two Americas" Jnmes
n. Clarke: ''The Tenant System and
Some Changes Sine Emancipation" I"
Thomas J. Edwards: "Work 0f the
Commission of Southern Universities
on the Race Question" Charles Hill
man Brough: "Fifty Years of Free
dom: Conditions In the Seaconst lte-
rions." Niels Christensen: THE White
Mans Debt to the Negro" L. Fl. Ham
n1ond: "Negro Criminnlity In the
South" Monroe y. Work: "The Move
ment For the Retirement Of the Negro
In Philadelphia" John r. Emlen:
Problems Of citizenship" Ray STAN
nnrl Baker: conditions Among Ne
gfoes In the Cities" George Edmund