The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-12-20
Negro Greetings To Uncle Sam 1910

THE Negro began his contribution in the early DAYS
when Western Europe moved to the discovery and exploit
taton of the New World. Black with Menendez
Balboa Cores De Leon De Soto and Others Stephen Dor
antes better known Little Stephen" from 1927 1889
tramed across great deal of what is the southeast
and southwest of the United States In his search the
fabulous Seven Cities of Cboa he the first explore
what has become the States of Arizona New Mexico
Jean Point DuSabe the first permanent founder
the city of Chicago There Negro
Lewis and Clark expedition of 1904 Today Mathew Henson
assistant to Commodore Peary only living person to
have stood at the North Pole
BLACK hands tended the rice stripped the tobacco
picked the cotton and cut the which rested
of the life of the South and the of the nation
Before the Civil War all Negroes in this country
not slaves There quarter million free Negroes the
North and equal number in the South itself In cities
as New Orleans these free people of color dominated
crafts 2"
Negroes hold the title to 1000 new inventions
registered in the United States patent office
To-day there 100000 gainfully employed
black workers Twenty-Five thousand retail merchants in
1880 did business of SOL There approximately
100000 farmers one-fifth of whom owners -"
Free Negroes in several states voted for the adoption
of the Constitution itself .
Some Negroes served in the State and local govern
ments From 1870 to 1901 twenty-five held seats in the Ma
ona Congress- Two of these Hiram R. Reves and Blanche
K. Bruce, were senators ;"
There Negro members of legislature in dozen
states including Kentucky; Negro the national Cong
judges
There have been 43 821 Negro college graduates some
200 have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa and equal
Der have won the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
I'm broad the Negro press which goes back to
1927, is educative institution well agency of
communication There 1882 Negro newspapers mag
azines in the United States today They wide in
fuence .
1.-THE gift of the Negro to American music is the most
known and accepted of the cultural contributions Almost
everyone agrees that it is of the distinct elements of
what might be called American culture
Collection of the New York Public library contain thousands
of volumes by Negro writer's These works almost
every field history politics. labor science and folklore
This literature appears in virtually every literary form
'Crspus Attucks mulatto, had been the first to fall
the Boston Despite the hesitation and prejudice
at first some 5000 Negroes fought the American side
the War for Independence George Washington said
that they made good soldiers Even for fsome praise was
accorded the black soldiers by Andrew Jackson after
Battle of New Orleans in 1915 :. ;"
Some two hundred thousand Negroes fought with the
Union forces ="
I'm the first World War; the Negro rallied under the
slogan To make the world safe for democracy Three hun
dred and syseven thousand Negroes drafted and
10000 eventually went to France Thus while Negroes
but 10 cent of the population they furnished 10
cent of the draftees Il D. Reddick, Negro History