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alley American answer average better cent church colored domestics compared condition cook course crime criminals death difficult domestic service Duty economic employed employers employment enter fact females five four girls give given grade greater hand houses includes increase industrial labor less living lodging Lombard male married mass matter months naturally nearly Negro occupations organization paid Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia poor population present probably problem proportion question race received records rent represent respectable result rooms seen servants service period Seventh Ward shows slaves slums social societies South statistics street tion to-day trades United University usually wages waiter week whole woman women young
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.
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 |
| Length | 520 pages |
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