The Omaha guide., 1934-01-27


advocate segregation, but their COM
munities should be Negro built; Ne
gro controlled, so that the colored
people would have freedom for exer-
else of their leadership, which has
been developed"
Inquiries at the Department of the
Interior and the Division of Subsist-
ence Homesteads as to what is being
done for the Negro reveals the fact
that Mr.. Foreman's belief that such
communities would place the Negro
on the road to economic emancipa-
ton. is uppermost in the minds of the
officials of the Department and the
Division, and this belief is further
bolstered up by quotations from DIR.
DUBOIS recent comment in the Jan
uary Crisis, that at is impossible to
wait for the millennium Of free and
normal intercourse before we unite,
to cooperate among ourselves in
groups Of like-minded people and in
groups Of people suffering from the
same disadvantages and the same
hatreds."
In direct reference to the projects
Of the subsistence homesteads Mr..
Dubois says; in the recent endeav-
or OF the United States Government
to redistribute capital SO that some
OF the disadvantaged groups may get
a chance for development, the Amer
lean Negro should voluntarily and
lnsistenly demand his share. Group
communities and farms inhabited by
colored folk should be voluntarily
formed. In no case should there no
any discrimination against white and
blacks. But, at the same time. color
ed people should come forward. shoula
organize and conduct enterprises and
their only insistence should be hat
the same provisions be made for tha
success Of their enterprises that IS
beng made for the success of anv
other enterprise. 1t must be remem-
Dered that in the last quarter of a
century, the advance of the colored
people has been mainly in the lines
where they themselves working bv
n for themselves, have accomplish
ed the greatest advance"
January 6 a project was announced
to provide homes for 500 families in
Jasper and Putnam Counties in cen
trail Georgia.
This project will be carried ont
under the direction of the. Subsist-
ence Homesteads Division of the De-
partment of the Interior. A loan Of
pl'OOO,OOO will be made by the Fed
eral Subsistence Homesteads Cor
poration, through the Division fnnc-
tons, to Charlottesville Homesteads
Inc, a local corporation. This has
been organized for the purpose of
developing and managing the pro-
Ject as an integral part of the pro-
gram OF research, teaching and ex-
tension directed by the Regents Of
the University System of Georgia.
The many facilities Of the Univer-
sity System, which comprises sew
enteen institutions, including two
agricultural experiment stations and
three Negro institutions, will cooper-
ate IN this project The three Negro
institutions: Georgia Normal and
Agricultural College at Albany.
headed by J. w. Holley; State Tea
cher and Agricultural College at
Forsyth, w. M. Hubbard, president:
n the Georgia State Industrial Col
lege at Savannah, B. F. Hubert, pres
ident, who is also supervisor Of ex-
petinental and extension work in
Hancock County Georgia.
The Negro population in both
counties outnumbered the white pop-
ulation in 1880; Jasper County hav-
ing 5,237 Negroes and only 1857
whites; and Putnam County 5212 Ne
groes and only 3,155 whites. Local
representatives connected with the
project are quoted as saving the
status quo" of the population Of the
counties will be maintained in the al
lotment.