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Since then, spirituals have become a standard part of American religious and concert music. In short, even before the Negro Renaissance of the 1920s the Afro-American community had made a basic contribution to American culture, providing America with a peasant folk tradition of the greatest importance.
Blacks felt that it was merely another report; they wanted action. Conservatives claimed that it was a prejudiced and unfair study. In April of 1968, another rash of riots swept through the Afro-American community. This time there was a clear and obvious cause. Dr.
Atlanta University invited DuBois to come there and teach and to conduct sociological studies. There he began a research department which was devoted to studying the problems of the Afro-American community and which resulted in the production of a dozen works. Besides his interest in scholarly research, DuBois developed a theory of racial leadership.
In 1935 the number of unemployed Negro domestics was at least one and a half million. In that same year, the government estimated that 65 percent of the Negro employables in Atlanta were on public assistance while, in Norfolk, 80 percent of the Afro-American community was on relief.
Just to sit there and listen to that unalloyed nonsense was better than to 'sport with Amaryllis in the shade, or with the tangles of Neæra's hair, or to be the object of a votive dinner, or to be forgiven one's sins; there is no such complete purgation of care as one gets from the real Afro-American when he is unreal, and lures one completely away from life, while professing to give his impressions of it.
Purvis said that he could welcome the overthrow of this government and he could hope that it would be replaced by a better one. The alienation of the Afro-American from his government was dramatically underscored and justified in 1857 by the Dred Scott Decision which was handed down by the Supreme Court.
White undertakers and beauticians were reluctant to cater to Negro customers. Aside from their personal tastes, they feared that it would alienate their white patrons. A similar situation held true for dentists and doctors. This forced the Afro-American community to develop its own professionals. By 1900, Negroes had invested half a million dollars in undertaking establishments.
The latter is shown by the formation of the Afro-American League for the protection of the blacks, especially in the Southern States, and the advancement of their interests and influence. This idea originated with Mr. Fortune, the editor of the New York Freeman. Few are aware of the progress of negro education. We have already 16,000 colored teachers.
The day-to-day realities of education, housing, employment, and social degradation had hardly been touched. Finally, life in an urban ghetto, though lacking the humiliation of legal segregation, had brought another harsh reality into Afro-American life. Survival for the individual as well as for the family came under fresh stress in urban slum situations.
If in both these cities and likewise in Little Rock, which next he favored with his presence, he made himself known to brothers of his particular lodge the Afro-American Order of Supreme Kings of the Universe has a large and a widely distributed membership and if under the sacred pledge of secrecy which only may be broken on pain of mutilation and death by torture he with the aid of these fraternal allies of his conducted certain discreet inquiries, why, that was his own private business.
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