The Philadelphia Negro: A Social StudyPublished for the University, 1899 - 520 páginas |
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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study William Edward Burghardt Du Bois,Isabel Eaton Visualização integral - 1899 |
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Página 365 - Every freeman of the full age of twenty-one years, having resided in this State for the space of one whole year next before the day of election for representatives, and paid public taxes during that time, shall enjoy the right of an elector : Provided, always, that sons of freeholders of the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled to vote, although they have not paid taxes.
Página 367 - In elections by the citizens, every white freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in this 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 414 - 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 4 - The student of these questions must first ask. What is the real condition of this group of human beings? Of whom is it composed. what sub,groups and classes exist. what sort of individuals are being considered? Further. the student must clearly recognize that a complete study must not confine itself to the group. but must specially notice the environment; the physical environment of city. sections and houses. the far mightier social environment — the surrounding world of custom. wish. whim. and...
Página 86 - 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 386 - 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 307 - Grade 2: The respectable working-class; in comfortable circumstances, with a good home, and having steady remunerative work. The younger children in school. " Grade 3. : The poor ; persons not earning enough to keep them at all times above want ; honest, although not always energetic or thrifty, and with no touch of gross immorality or crime. Including the very poor, and the poor. " Grade 4 : The lowest class of criminals, prostitutes and loafers; the
Página 24 - Negro strongly, and the whole period from 1820 to 1840 became a time of retrogression for the mass of the race, and of discountenance and repression from the whites.
Página 17 - ... 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 390 - There is no doubt that in Philadelphia the center and kernel of the Negro problem so far as the white people are concerned is the narrow opportunities afforded Negroes for earning a decent living.