The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-10-28
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BY HOBART r. MITCHELL

gro: Sixty years ago he was slave.
lie owned no property; aninety-nane
u er cent were penniless field hands.
lie was illiterate and without edu-
cation.
In 1898, Solomon, free Negro
well known by men Of all classes in
Macon, Georgia, kept grocery
store, and had more credit than any
other merchant in town. Owned a
lumber of slaves and $4,000 worth
Of propety.
In Virginia, free Negroes were
required to pay poll tax of $I.50
in 1913 and $3.50 in 1915. In 1914,
5,547 free Negroes paid $s,322 in
taxes and in 1868 they paid s13,-
065.22 in poll taxes.
Negroes in Baltimore paid $500
in school taxes in 1860 but could
not attend the public schools.
In Philadelphia, Negroes had tax
able property worth $500 iii
1882, $359,626 in 1887, and $780,
600 in 1847.
In Cincinnati, in 1910, Negroes
had acquired $228,O0o worth of
property One Negro had $4,000
worth.
George Bentley, Negro preacher.
was preaching in white church in
Giles, Tenn. in 1859.
Kentucky had the greatest number
of Negro troops (23,7o3) in the
Civil War.
In 1913 thirty Negroes assisted
Balboa in building the first ships
made on the Pacific Coast.
A Negro owned 200 slaves in
South Carolina in 1857
Roland Hayes, great Negro singer,
was ready only for the sixth grade
when he was nineteen years of age.
Paul Robson, actor, chosen by
Walter Camp in 1918 for the ALI
American team. In his first year
in college he received seven AS and
one B and in his Junior year he won
the Phi Beta Kappa key.
Frederick Douglass, born slave
at Tuckohoe, near Easton, Mary
land, Feb. 1917, died Feb. 2, 1895,
was the first Negro to ride on a
battleship as the guest of the United
States Navy.
The Eighth Regiment Of Chicago,
the Black Devils, probably made the
last capture in the Worlds War.
The morning Of November IL, at
11:10 a. m. They captured Ger
man army train of fifty wagons.
October 16, 1859, John Brown
with nineteen assistants, five of
whom were Negroes, captured the
arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
Two institutions for higher educa-
tion Of the Negro were established
before the Civil War, Lincoln Uni
versity in Pennsylvania (1854) and
Wilberforce in Ohio (1856).
Norbert Rillieux, Negro in Louis
lana, patented (Dec. 10, 1846) an
evaporating pan by which the re-
fining of sugar was revolutionized.
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this column for the three most in
teresting on unusual fact about Ne
groes living or dead. Contributions
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A prominent physician of Mobile,
IN 1874, stated that the brain OF the
Negro in one-tenth smaller than a
white mans and that the Negro
could not live in the north because
the cold climate would freeze his
brain and make him insane.
An ex-senator of the United
States, a colored man, Blanche &.
Bruce Of Mississippi, was honored
by having created for him the office
of register of the treasury.
White members of st. Georges
Methodist Episcopal church in Phila-
delphia (1787) wanted to segregate
the Negro membership to a part OF
the church, Absalom Jones and 9th
ers choosing not to be insulted or
ganized the Free African Society.
In time this Society became afiliat-
cd with the Protestant Episcopal
Church. From this developed ST.
Thomas Episcopal Church which
opened for service July II, 1894;
and Absalom Jones became the first
Negro rector in the U. S.
The Minneapolis Tribune teven-
ing) Of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Of
Monday, January 21, 1907, states
that Edward H. Morris, Negro law
yer of Chicago, Ill. has a practice
worth $4,000 a year.
In 1854, DR.. DeGrasse, q Negro,
was admitted as member Of the