"A Negro New Jerusalem."
This article criticizes an "immigration scheme" designed to attract African American citizens to a city in the midwestern United States, where "everything will be in the hands of the negro" (including city management, industry, and education). The article argues that because Afri...
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This article criticizes an "immigration scheme" designed to attract African American citizens to a city in the midwestern United States, where "everything will be in the hands of the negro" (including city management, industry, and education). The article argues that because African Americans have few financial resources in the South, they will not "suddenly and by some unexplained process become rich" by moving away: "It is not expected that it will occur to the negro...that if no one of the ten thousand has any accumulated capital, the ten thousand will be without the capital to begin and continue these costly financial undertakings...A lot of worthless land has been obtained and divided into 'city lots,' which when sold for ten dollars each, will bring in enough to enrich the schemers, but leave the purchasers 'poor indeed.' And that will be the sum of the matter. The Southern negroes will be swindled out of their few dollars...They will find that there is no royal road to wealth; and that they were in every respect better off where at least meat and bread and a home were assured them." |
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Q0000017440 - Q0000017441Q17440 - Q17441"A Negro New Jerusalem."This article criticizes an "immigration scheme" designed to attract African American citizens to a city in the midwestern United States, where "everything will be in the hands of the negro" (including city management, industry, and education). The article argues that because African Americans have few financial resources in the South, they will not "suddenly and by some unexplained process become rich" by moving away: "It is not expected that it will occur to the negro...that if no one of the ten thousand has any accumulated capital, the ten thousand will be without the capital to begin and continue these costly financial undertakings...A lot of worthless land has been obtained and divided into 'city lots,' which when sold for ten dollars each, will bring in enough to enrich the schemers, but leave the purchasers 'poor indeed.' And that will be the sum of the matter. The Southern negroes will be swindled out of their few dollars...They will find that there is no royal road to wealth; and that they were in every respect better off where at least meat and bread and a home were assured them."1902 November 81902-11-081900-1909African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Segregation--AlabamaTextNewspapersThe Daily Register49.5071v240Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130EnglishThis material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.240 PPI TIFFhttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/2809 |
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