The Philadelphia Negro (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) by Gates-Jr., Henry Louis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Title Copyright Contents The Black Letters on the Sign: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Canon Introduction Chapter I: The Scope of this Study

1. General Aim 2. The Methods of Inquiry 3. The Credibility of the Results

Chapter II: The Problem

4. The Negro Problems of Philadelphia 5. Plan of Presentment

Chapter III: The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638–1820

6. General Survey 7. The Transplanting of the Negro, 1638–1760 8. Emancipation, 1760–1780 9. The Rise of the Freedmen, 1780–1820

Chapter IV: The Negro in Philadelphia, 1820–1896

10. Fugitives and Foreigners, 1820–1840 11. The Guild of the Caterers, 1840–1870 12. The Influx of the Freedmen, 1870–1896

Chapter V: The Size, Age and Sex of the Negro Population

13. The City for a Century 14. The Seventh Ward, 1896

Chapter VI: Conjugal Condition

15. The Seventh Ward 16. The City

Chapter VII: Sources of the Negro Population

17. The Seventh Ward 18. The City

Chapter VIII: Education and Illiteracy

19. The History of Negro Education 20. The Present Condition

Chapter IX: The Occupations of Negroes

21. The Question of Earning a Living 22. Occupations in the Seventh Ward 23. Occupations in the City 24. History of the Occupations of Negroes

Chapter X: The Health of Negroes

25. The Interpretation of Statistics 26. The Statistics of the City

Chapter XI: The Negro Family

27. The Size of the Family 28. Incomes 29. Property 30. Family Life

Chapter XII: The Organized Life of Negroes

31. History of the Negro Church in Philadelphia 32. The Function of the Negro Church 33. The Present Condition of the Churches 34. Secret and Beneficial Societies, and Co-operative Business 35. Institutions 36. The Experiment of Organization

Chapter XIII: The Negro Criminal

37. History of Negro Crime in the City 38. Negro Crime Since the War 39. A Special Study in Crime 40. Some Cases of Crime

Chapter XIV: Pauperism and Alcoholism

41. Pauperism 42. The Drink Habit 43. The Causes of Crime and Poverty

Chapter XV: The Environment of the Negro

44. Houses and Rent 45. Sections and Wards 46. Social Classes and Amusements

Chapter XVI: The Contact of the Races

47. Color Prejudice 48. Benevolence 49. The Intermarriage of the Races

Chapter XVII: Negro Suffrage

50. The Significance of the Experiment 51. The History of Negro Suffrage in Pennsylvania 52. City Politics 53. Some Bad Results of Negro Suffrage 54. Some Good Results of Negro Suffrage 55. The Paradox of Reform

Chapter XVIII: A Final Word

56. The Meaning of All This 57. The Duty of the Negroes 58. The Duty of the Whites

Appendix A. Schedules used in the House-to-House Inquiry Appendix B. Legislation, etc., of Pennsylvania in Regard to the Negro Appendix C. Bibliography Index William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology Selected Bibliography I. Map of Seventh Ward, showing streets and political divisions II. Map of Seventh Ward, showing distribution of Negro inhabitants throughout the ward, and their social condition Notes