Title: Twelve Million Negro Americans: Their Background, Progress and Present-Day Problems.
Description: Atlanta, GA: Conference on Education and Race Relations, (1942). (1942). - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled cream self-wraps titled in brown on the front cover. The top left corner of the front cover is darkened. 24 pages, including the covers. Very good.
Second edition.
Following a brief summary of the problems associated with slavery, this booklet published by the Conference on Education and Race Relations documents such topics as "Progress since Emancipation", comparing property owned by African-Americans in 1865 to that owned in 1930, the percentage of the African-American population of several Southern states in 1900, 1930 and 1940, the problems of health, poverty, public schools, etc. comparing "Public School Expenditures per Child Enrolled", between whites and African-Americans in several states. There is also a paragraph entitled "Murder at the Hands of the Mob" which discusses lynching, a "problem peculiar to America". "Suggestions for Discussion" and "Constructive Southern Opinion" are considered. Very good .
Keywords: AMERICANA; AFRICAN-AMERICANS; TWELVE MILLION NEGRO AMERICANS; THEIR BACKGROUND, PROGRESS AND PRESENT-DAY PROBLEMS; R.E. ELEAZER; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; CONFERENCE ON ADUCATION AND RACE RELATIONS; DISPARITY; RACISM; SLAVERY; BLACK STUDIES.
- Book number: 96807
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