The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

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Published for the University, 1899 - 520 páginas
 

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Página 417 - State one year, and in the election 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 before the election, shall enjoy the rights of an elector.
Página 369 - 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...
Página 418 - The master of a vessel who shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.
Página 416 - An act to give effect to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, relative to fugitives from labor, for the protection of free people of color, and to prevent kidnapping...
Página 88 - 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 school maintained wholly or in part under the school laws of the Commonwealth.
Página 390 - Work, continuous and intensive; work, although it be menial and poorly rewarded; work, though done in travail of soul and sweat of brow, must be so impressed upon Negro children as the road to salvation, that a child would feel it a greater disgrace to be idle than to do the humblest labor.
Página 317 - Instead then of social classes held together by strong ties of mutual interest, we have in the case of the Negroes, classes who have much to keep them apart, and only community of blood and color prejudice to bind them together.
Página 19 - ... but there being too few to be found under the like concern, and those who were, differed in their religious sentiments; with these circumstances they labored for some time, till it was proposed after a serious communication of sentiments that a...
Página 369 - Every freeman of the full age of twenty-one years, having resided in this State for the space of one whole year...
Página 389 - ... the Negro to raise himself by every effort to the standards of modern civilization and not to lower those standards in any degree. 4. It is the duty of the white people to guard their civilization against debauchment by themselves or others; but in order to do this it is not necessary to hinder and retard the efforts of an earnest people to rise, simply because they lack faith in the ability of that people.

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