Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1911 - African Americans - 236 pages
 

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Page 213 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of this state shall be entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, hotels, eating houses, bath houses, barber shops, theatres, music halls, public conveyances on land and water, and all other places of public accommodation or amusement subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all citizens.
Page 213 - Sec. 2. That any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any citizen, except for reasons by law applicable to citizens of every race and color, and regardless of any previous condition of servitude, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges in said section...
Page 213 - ... and shall also, for every such offense, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than one year...
Page 221 - The world of modern intellectual life is in reality a white man's world. Few women and perhaps no blacks have ever entered this world in the fullest sense. To enter it in the fullest sense would be to be in it at every moment from the time of birth to the time of death, and to absorb it unconsciously and consciously, as the child absorbs language. When something like this happens, we shall be in a position to judge of the mental efficiency of woman and the lower races.
Page 213 - ... places of public accommodation and amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to all citizens. "Section 4426-2. That any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the foregoing section by denying to any citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens...
Page 213 - ... forfeit and pay a sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where said offense was committed...
Page 98 - Negro is likely to be refused, while the less intelligent and well paid forms of labor press a union card upon him. Again strong organizations in the South, as the brick-layers, send men North with union membership who easily transfer to New York locals. Miss Tucker finds the carpenters, masons and plasterers' organizations easy for the Negro to enter. There is in New York a colored local, the only colored local in the city, among a few of the carpenters with regular representation in the Central...
Page 70 - ... make of mind is exceedingly like the make of mind of thousands of Englishmen of the stand-no-nonsense, Englishman's-house-is-his-castle type. Yet, withal, a law-abiding man, loving a live lord, holding loudly that women should be kept in their place, yet often grievously henpecked by his wives, and little better than a slave to his mother, whom he loves with a love he gives to none other.
Page 193 - If life were a thing that money could buy The rich would live, and the poor would die.

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