The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Isabel Eaton

Published for the University, 1899 - African American household employees - 520 pages

"The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of African Americans in Philadelphia written by W. E. B. Du Bois, commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and published in 1899 with the intent of identifying social problems present in the African American community. It was the first sociological case study of a black community in the United States and one of the earliest examples of sociology as a statistically based social science. Du Bois gathered information for the study in the period between August 1896 and December 1897. Du Bois carefully mapped every black residence, church, and business in the city's Seventh Ward, recording occupational and family structure. Du Bois's Philadelphia research was pivotal in his reformulation of the concept of race. He deduced that, "the Negro problem looked at in one way is but the old world questions of ignorance, poverty, crime, and the dislike of the stranger." He supports these claims with examples and survey analysis breakdowns throughout the journal"--Wikipedia, viewed June 10, 2022.

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Contents

• The Problem: 5
• The Negro in Philadelphia 18201896: 25
• The Size Age and Sex of the Negro Popula: 46
• Conjugal Condition: 66
• Sources of the Negro Population: 73
• CHAPTER: 83
• The question of earning a living: 97
• Occupations in the city: 113
• History of the occupations of Negroes: 141
• IO24: 145
• CHAPTER: 147
• II: 153
• CHAPTER: 164
• Property: 181
• Family life: 193
• The experiment of organization: 233
• Pauperism and Alcoholism: 269
• The causes of crime and poverty: 282
• The Environment of the Negro: 287
• The Contact of the Races: 322
• The intermarriage of the races: 365
• City politics: 372
• Some good results of Negro suffrage: 382
• The duty of the Negroes: 391
• APPENDIX A Schedules used in the housetohouse inquiry 400410: 400
• APPENDIX B Legislation etc of Pennsylvania rd to: 411
• Bibliography: 419
• SPECIAL REPORT ON NEGRO DOMESTIC SERVICE: 425
• Sources of the supply and methods of hiring: 435
• Grades of service and wages: 444
• mestics: 490
• 2545: 499
• 4665: 513
• 221: 514

Popular passages

Page 367 - freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State two years next before the election, and within that time paid a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least six months before the election, shall enjoy the rights of an elector.

Page 415 - offers to vote ten days immediately preceding such election, and within two years paid a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least ten days before the election, shall enjoy the right of an

Page 367 - Article III, Section i. In elections by the citizens, every freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State two years next before the election, and within that time paid a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least six months before the election, shall enjoy the rights of an elector.

Page 369 - district where he offers to vote ten days immediately preceding such election, and within two years paid a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least ten days

Page 85 - having for its object the benevolent design of instructing the descendants of the African race in school learning, in the various branches of the mechanic arts and trades, and in agriculture, in order to prepare, fit and qualify them to act as teachers.

Page 416 - or place of amusement, shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than fifty or more than one hundred

Page 416 - i. It shall be unlawful for any school director, superintendent, or teacher to make any distinction whatever on account of, or by reason of, the race or color of any pupil or scholar who may be in attendance upon or seeking admission to, any public or common school maintained wholly or in part under the school laws of the

Page 86 - unlawful for any school director, superintendent or teacher to make any distinction whatever on account of, or by reason of, the race or color of any pupil or scholar who may be in attendance upon, or seeking admission to, any public or common school maintained

Page 17 - be formed without regard to religious tenets, provided the persons lived an orderly and sober life, in order to support one another in sickness, and for the benefit of their widows and fatherless children.

Page 367 - gave the right of suffrage to " every freeman of the full age of twenty-one years, having resided in this State for the space of one whole year.

About the author

Civil rights leader and author, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868. He earned a B.A. from both Harvard and Fisk universities, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard, and studied at the University of Berlin. He taught briefly at Wilberforce University before he came professor of history and economics at Atlanta University in Ohio (1896-1910). There, he wrote The Souls of Black Folk (1903), in which he pointed out that it was up to whites and blacks jointly to solve the problems created by the denial of civil rights to blacks. In 1905, Du Bois became a major figure in the Niagara Movement, a crusading effort to end discrimination. The organization collapsed, but it prepared the way for the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in which Du Bois played a major role. In 1910, he became editor of the NAACP magazine, a position he held for more than 20 years. Du Bois returned to Atlanta University in 1932 and tried to implement a plan to make the Negro Land Grant Colleges centers of black power. Atlanta approved of his idea, but later retracted its support. When Du Bois tried to return to NAACP, it rejected him too. Active in several Pan-African Congresses, Du Bois came to know Fwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, and Jono Kenyatta the president of Kenya. In 1961, the same year Du Bois joined the Communist party, Nkrumah invited him to Ghana as a director of an Encyclopedia Africana project. He died there on August 27, 1963, after becoming a citizen of that country.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study; Black thought and culture; Civil rights and social justice; Volume 14 of Publications of the University of Pennsylvania / Series in political economy and public law: Publications of the University of Pennsylvania; Issue 14 of Publications of the University of Pennsylvania: Series in political economy and public law; Issue 14 of Series in political economy and public law, Pennsylvania University; Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law
• Authors: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Isabel Eaton
• Publisher: Published for the University, 1899
• ISBN: 0722297912, 9780722297919
• Length: 520 pages