Negro Year Book: An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro ... 1947,1952Negro year Book Publishing Company, 1914 - African Americans |
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... cent Negroes of total persons in main classes of occupations , 278 ; Negroes making gains in trades . 279 ; Negroes increasing as factory workers , 278 ; Large numbers of Ne- groes engaged in business , 280 ; Occupations of Negro women ...
... cent Negroes of total persons in main classes of occupations , 278 ; Negroes making gains in trades . 279 ; Negroes increasing as factory workers , 278 ; Large numbers of Ne- groes engaged in business , 280 ; Occupations of Negro women ...
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... cent over that of previous years . The number of pages has been increased from 348 in 1913 1914 to 417 in 1914-1915 ... cents postage on single copies sent through the mail instead of five cents as charged on copies of previous editions ...
... cent over that of previous years . The number of pages has been increased from 348 in 1913 1914 to 417 in 1914-1915 ... cents postage on single copies sent through the mail instead of five cents as charged on copies of previous editions ...
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... Negro Progress in Fifty Years 1863 ECONOMIC PROGRESS Homes owned Farms operated Businesses conducted . Wealth accumulated . 9,000 15,000 2,000 20,000 ( 1 ) 3,000,000 $ 2,800,000 EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Per cent Literate ..... 30.
... Negro Progress in Fifty Years 1863 ECONOMIC PROGRESS Homes owned Farms operated Businesses conducted . Wealth accumulated . 9,000 15,000 2,000 20,000 ( 1 ) 3,000,000 $ 2,800,000 EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Per cent Literate ..... 30.
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... cent Literate ..... 30 25 Number of. EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Per cent Literate ......... ... 5 Number of Colleges and Normal Schools 4 Students in Public Schools ..... 10,000 Teachers in all schools .... 150 School Property for Higher ...
... cent Literate ..... 30 25 Number of. EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Per cent Literate ......... ... 5 Number of Colleges and Normal Schools 4 Students in Public Schools ..... 10,000 Teachers in all schools .... 150 School Property for Higher ...
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... cent Literate ..... 30 25 Number of Colleges and Normal Schools 120 Students in Public Schools ..... 817,000 116 807,000 Teachers in all Schools ..... 16,000 15,850 School Property for Higher Education .. $ 7,000,000 $ 6,950,000 ...
... cent Literate ..... 30 25 Number of Colleges and Normal Schools 120 Students in Public Schools ..... 817,000 116 807,000 Teachers in all Schools ..... 16,000 15,850 School Property for Higher Education .. $ 7,000,000 $ 6,950,000 ...
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Page 108 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States, wherein the people...
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Page 141 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theatres, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
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Page 107 - That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army ; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States, and all slaves of such persons found...