Economic co-operation among Negro Americans
Subtitle: report of a social study made by Atlanta University under the patronage of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. together with the proceedings of the 12th Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Tuesday, May the 28th, 1907
By: edited by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
Contributors: Atlanta University; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems (12th : 1907 : Atlanta University); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Series: Atlanta University publications -- no. 12
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Economic conditions; Social conditions; History; Cooperative societies; Cooperation
Other titles: Economic cooperation among Negro Americans; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Reviews the status of African Americans through research on Africa, the West Indies, and the Colonies, and how those different settings have affected the economic and social capabilities of the African people. It provides a history of cooperation among African Americans, describing its beginnings in the African church and its further progress as seen in the development of the Underground Railroad. Du Bois moves on to discuss the roles of emancipation, the Freedmen's Bureau, and migration. There is considerable detail and statistics about various types of economic cooperation including churches, schools, beneficial and insurance societies, secret societies, cooperative benevolence, banks, and cooperative business.
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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: Economic co-operation among Negro Americans : report of a social study made by Atlanta University under the patronage of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. together with the proceedings of the 12th Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Tuesday, May the 28th, 1907. / edited by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, Corresponding Secretary of the Conference. Atlanta, Ga. : The Atlanta University Press, 1907. 184 p. ; 24 cm. "Twelfth of the annual publications of Atlanta University"--Pref. "Select bibliography of economic co-operation among Negro Americans": p. [6]-9. Includes index.

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