Category: History - Other

Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history and a heart to heart talk about white folks

Produced by Turgut Dincer, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Chapters

15. Part 15

While the American Negro in the field of science has not yet produced an Agassiz, the Race has already developed two men far advanced along this path in the persons of Dr. Ernes...

6. Part 6

But a certain good white sentiment (that usually turns up sooner or later, and in some cases more later (than sooner) after great sufferings have been caused) gently but firmly...

18. Part 18

The Pace Phonograph Corporation, New York City, is the first of its kind in the world to be composed only of Colored people. It is presided over by Harry H. Pace, a Colored man...

8. Part 8

Atlanta, Georgia, Y. W. C. A., 196 Piedmont Avenue. Augusta, Georgia, Y. W. C. A., 1104 Gwinnett Street. Baltimore, Maryland, Y. W. C. A., 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. Bridgeport, Co...

16. Part 16

The writer regrets that as hard and patiently as he researched he was unable to secure a list of names of the Colored women doctors who are to-day practicing medicine in the Uni...

3. Part 3

“Lane, Lunsford.--Born a slave at Raleigh, N. C. He is placed in Prof. Bassett’s “History of the Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina” among the four prominent abolitionists o...

17. Part 17

Prejudice against her race and sex did not deter the colored girl, Edmonia Lewis, from struggling upward to honor and fame as a sculptor.” This is what was written about that gr...

2. Part 2

When the few broad-minded white people in the early colonies stopped to realize that the first African people who arrived were not used to America’s new foods, unusual hard work...

20. Part 20

But the “Old Master” of them all, who even today is conceded to have been one of if not the cleanest hitting, quickest moving, gamest staying and most scientific boxers, Colored...

9. Part 9

The National Association of Teachers for Colored Schools is under the scholarly and experienced leadership of Prof. J. M. Gandy. It is due mostly to this organization that the m...

13. Part 13

Among America’s foremost Colored women newspaper writers of today is Frances Berry Coston of Indianapolis, Ind. Her chief work is in feature articles and stories. Having graduat...

12. Part 12

In 1784 a Boston Negro, Prince Hall, was granted a warrant from England to establish the African Lodge, No. 459 of the Masons; and in 1843 Peter Ogden, a Colored organizer in Ne...

10. Part 10

“And now we come to the most serious aspect of the agricultural situation in the United States. For the period of 1900 to 1910 more than two and a half million people left the c...

4. Part 4

“The only American music”. This is the terse, sincere and high comment made quite a number of years ago by Edward Everett Hale, author of “A Man Without a Country”, in relation...

19. Part 19

Sol Butler All-round Athlete Drake University Theodore Cable Hammer Thrower Harvard University Binga Dismond 440 Yard Runner Chicago University Howard P. Drew Short Distant Runn...

5. Part 5

Another backyard quarrel and fight occured 1916 between the United States and Mexico. The famous 10th Colored Cavalry, 24th and 25th Colored Infantries were sent with Chicago Na...

14. Part 14

The Brownies’ Book, edited by W. E. B. DuBois, & A. G. Dill of New York City, N. Y., is something entirely new in the field of Negro journalism. It is, “A monthly magazine for c...

7. Part 7

Among all the white ministers in the United States, only they themselves can tell how many of them peacefully feel within their secret hearts and contentedly feel within their r...

11. Part 11

To be awarded first prize at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and the Jamestown Exposition in 1907 and to be awarded a contract by the United States Government to supply its army du...

22. Part 22

Wm. Anthony Aery Editor Samuel Chapman Armstrong Educator Miss Alice M. Bacon Philanthropist. Dr. Gamaliel Bailey Editor, Abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher Preacher Arthur Brisban...

21. Part 21

George Walker, the one-time partner of Bert Williams and the late husband of Aida Walker, was the real “Bon Bon Buddy” singer and starred with Williams in “Sons of Ham”, “Bandan...

1. Part 1

Produced by Turgut Dincer, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The I...