The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-05
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In the American Magazine appears
an account of Mrs. Dismukes, Negro
%laundress in Fisk university at Nash
vile, Tenn, who, out of her small
means has given $1,000 toward a music
building for Fisk university. Forty
nine other thousands are necessary II
the building is to be realized, but Mrs.
Dismukes has infinite faith that they
will be forthcoming. Following is an
extract from the account o. what this
woman has done. The article was
written by the late Dr.. George A.
Gates, the late president of Fisk uni
versity:
Her story is almost too sacred to
put into print. She felt and feels that
all of life that is worth while h owes
to Fisk university and what it has
revealed to her Of the spirit of high
minded and G ,nerous men and wom-
en-. She has felt that all she could
do was too little in return for what
she has received. So this hard-work-
ing, faithful and efficient Negro wom-
an has kept her home, her husband
maintaining 1t with a mans self-re-
spect. She meantime has done her
full work and borne her full response
bility in her place in the institution.
For the last four years she has turned
back her monthly salary check into
the institution, until just now she has
completed her long cherished plan 70
give $1,000 as the beginning of a
fund for a music building on our
campus.
"On the day that the last $25 was
turned into the school treasury, COM
pleting the thousand, Mrs. Dismukes
declared she wouldn't exchange places
with anyone, that she was the hap
piest m in the world.
The music building has not yet ma
terialized, but her faith is undaunted,
and she frequently remarks to some
teacher in the music department: or
course that music building is coming!
l know it. l fee 1t. Why, it's bound
to come! But l wish it might while
I'm alive to see it,"
nUlle NtBIOCo w NnSON
ly in the United States between 1900
and 1910 to the extent of 11.2 per
cent, they did not keep pace with the
whites. That was due to immigra-
tios,rJOn this account there has been
a cM~tinuous decrease in the proper
ton of Negroes to the rest of the in
habitants. In 1890 Negroes made up
-- 80 RFtA ~ Tho nnnIlafinn. in
1910 they composed slightly over one
tenth.
Further, the number Of mulattoes
appears to have increased continuous
ly during the last forty years. OF
the 1927, 1853 Negroes in the country
at the time Of the last counting, more
than one-hfth were of mixed white
and Negro blood. That indicates how
prevalent 10 the process of miscegena
ton. a process through which in the
course of a thousand years or SO the
Negro will have lost his color, &C
cording to at least one anthropologist
of great reputation.
In 1900 20 per cent of Negro
homes were owned. In 1910 the per
centage ndu grown 70 HH'f' III WI
ginia Ala per cent OF all Negro homes
were owned, IN extremely high fig
[ ure.
Virginia, however, had fewer Ne
groes in 1910 than it had a decade
previous. From Virginia 206,764 Ne
( groes migrated to other states during
+ the ten-year period. Though popula-
opinion in the South holds that Ne
: groes "go North when they move
Arkansas, a southern state, showe'
the greatest gain from this migration