PROGRAM

of

THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF
NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY

For thirteen years this body has been saving the records of the Negro that the race may not be-
come a negligible factor in the thought of the world. Briefly stated, the Association

1. Publishes a quarterly scientific magazine which has been regularly issued since January 1916, containing informing current articles and valuable documents bearing on Negro life and history. (The circulation is 2,000.)

2. Promotes research into Negro life and history in such fields as the African background, the collection of folklore, the relations of Negroes and Indians, the Negro in art, the religious development of the Negro, and the social and economic conditions of the Negroes in the United States since the Civil War. (Seven Investigators are thus employed.)

3. Promotes the study of the Negro in clubs, churches, and schools and by the dissemination of information through lectures and conferences to improve race relations, acquainting one race with the good in the other. (Both races are interested and thus cooperate.)

4. Promotes the Home Study of Negro Life and History by mail to prepare for instruction in Negro history those teachers who today appreciate the importance of such knowledge, but did not have their attention directed thereto when they attended school.

5. Cooperates with schools in the preparation of courses and textbooks adapted to the stimulation of serious thinking as to the worth and civilization of all groups, that the youth of both races may grow liberal-minded by knowing the whole truth rather than become biased as a result of propaganda.

To expand this work as it ought to be the Association should have available funds to do the follow-
ing:

(a) To develop an understudy to assist in editing the "Journal of Negro History" and to direct the researches of investigators.

(b) To employ additional investigators to invade inviting fields in which valuable data become less and less accessible in the proportion as the task is delayed.

(c) To employ a field agent to lecture among the schools and clubs of both races to disseminate actual facts about the Negro.

(d) To give adequate publicity to the Home Study Department, by advertising and personal approach of persons expressing interest.

(e) To publish such juvenile literature as supplementary readers, music books, biographical sketches and the like to popularize the story of the Negro and thus get into the curricula of schools and colleges something to give the Negro a larger appreciation of his own possibilities and to give the white youth a more favorable opinion of the race.