Research Catalog

Title

Some efforts of American Negroes for their own social betterment : report of an investigation under the direction of Atlanta University : together with the proceedings of the Third Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 25-26, 1898 / edited by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, Ph.D., corresponding secretary of the conference.

Author

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

Publication

Atlanta, Ga. : Atlanta University Press, 1898.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Atlanta University.
• Atlanta University Press, publisher.
• Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems (3rd : 1898 : Atlanta, Ga.)

Description

66 pages; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Series Statement

Atlanta University. Atlanta University publications, no. 3

Uniform Title

Publications (Atlanta University) ; no. 3.

Subjects

• African Americans > Charities
• Congresses and conventions > Georgia > Atlanta
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Black author
• African Americans > Social conditions

Genre/Form

Ink stamps (Provenance)

Note

• In printed paper wrappers.
• "Errata."--recto of lower wrapper.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

• with the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introduction -- I. Results of the investigation: 1. The scope of the inquiry ; 2. General character of the organizations ; 3. The church ; 4. The secret society ; 5. Beneficial and insurance societies ; 6. Cooperative business ; 7. Benevolence ; 8. General summary -- II. Proceedings of the conference: Resolutions adopted by the conference -- III. Papers submitted to the conference: The church as an institution for social betterment / Rev. H.H. Proctor ; Secret and beneficial societies of Atlanta, Ga. / Dr. H.R. Butler ; Organized efforts of Negroes for their own social betterment in Petersburg, Va. / Prof. J.M. Colson ; The work of the Woman's League, Washington, D.C. / Mrs. Helen A. Cook ; The Carrie Steele Orphanage /Miss Minnie L. Perry ; Mortality of Negroes / L.M. Hershaw.

Call Number

Sc Rare 360-D (Du Bois, W. Some efforts...for social betterment)

LCCN

01013039

OCLC

• 2311404
• NYPGR2311404-B

Author

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, editor.

Title

Some efforts of American Negroes for their own social betterment : report of an investigation under the direction of Atlanta University : together with the proceedings of the Third Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 25-26, 1898 / edited by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, Ph.D., corresponding secretary of the conference.

Publisher

Atlanta, Ga. : Atlanta University Press, 1898.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Atlanta University. Atlanta University publications, no. 3

Publications (Atlanta University) ; no. 3.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), Suppl. 632

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 360-D (accession no. B880415) with the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Atlanta University.

Atlanta University Press, publisher.

Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems (3rd : 1898 : Atlanta, Ga.)

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 360-D (Du Bois, W. Some efforts...for social betterment)

IEC (Atlanta Univ. Pub. no. 3, 1898)