Part 38 Problems in American Democracy

Part 38

8. Why is the social condition of the Negro unsatisfactory?

9. What can be said as to the present political condition of the Negro?

10. Why have we delayed the development of a comprehensive plan for meeting the needs of the Negro?

11. What is the importance of Negro education?

12. Why is the economic readjustment of the Negro important?

13. Discuss the need for cooperation in meeting the Negro's problems.

14. What is the promise of the American Negro citizen?

REQUIRED READINGS

1. Williamson, _Readings in American Democracy,_ chapter xxii.

Or all of the following:

2. _Annals_ of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. xlix, "The Negro's Progress in Fifty Years," pages 47-58.

3. Washington, _Tuskegee and its People_, chapter i.

4. Williamson, _Sociology of the American Negro_, chapters xii, xvi, and xxvii.

QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS

1. Discuss the recent decrease in Negro illiteracy. (Williamson, chapter xii.)

2. What difficulty is encountered in applying mental tests to Negroes?

(Williamson, chapter xii.)

3. Outline the results of mental tests of the Negro. (Williamson, chapter xii.)

4. Summarize the chief characteristics of the Negro race. (Williamson, chapter xvi.)

5. What Negro faults might be turned into virtues? (Williamson, chapter xvi.)

6. Discuss the role of the mulatto leader. (Williamson, chapter xvi.)

7. What is Tuskegee Inst.i.tute? (Washington, page 19.)

8. What are the chief aims of Tuskegee Inst.i.tute? (Washington, page 21.)

9. What was Booker T. Washington's concept of education? (Washington, pages 28-30.)

10. What progress in Negro education has been made since 1880?

(_Annals_, pages 51-52.)

11. What four forces r.e.t.a.r.d the economic development of the Negro in the South? (_Annals_, page 55.)

TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT

1. African background of the American Negro. (Williamson, _Sociology of the American Negro_, part i.)

2. Slavery. (Hart, _Social and Economic Forces in American History_, chapter xix; Callender, _Selections from the Economic History of the United States_, pages 768-793; Williamson, _Sociology of the American Negro_, chapter v.)

3. Gains and losses under slavery. (Williamson, _Sociology of the American Negro_, chapter xxiv.)

4. The Negro in business. (Atlanta University Publications, No. 4.)

5. The Negro in professional occupations. (_Annals_, vol. xlix, pages 10-18.)

6. The Negro as an unskilled laborer. _Annals_, vol. xlix, pages 19- 28.

7. The Negro as a skilled worker. (Atlanta University Publications, No. 17.)

8. The system of Negro tenancy. (_Annals_, vol. xlix, pages 38-46.)

9. The Negro in the city. (Wolfe, _Readings in Social Problems_, chapter xviii; _Annals_, vol. xlix, pages 105-119.)

10. The Negro family. (Atlanta University Publications, No. 13; Tillinghast, _The Negro in Africa and America_, part iii, chapter iii; _Annals_, vol. xlix, pages 147-163.)

11. Negro organizations. (_Annals_, vol. xlix, pages 129-137.)

12. The Negro church. (Atlanta University Publications, No. 8; Tillinghast, _The Negro in Africa and America_, part iii, chapter iii; Washington, _The Story of the Negro_, vol. ii, chapter xiii.)

13. The mulatto. (Williamson, _Sociology of the American Negro_, chapters xx, xxi, and xxii.)

14. Race relationships in the South. (_Annals_, vol. xlix, pages 164- 172; Storey, _Problems of To-day_, chapter iii.)

15. Negro education. (_Annals_, vol. xlix, part iv; Wolfe, _Readings in Social Problems_, pages 769-783; Washington, _The Story of the Negro_, vol. ii, chapter v; Tillinghast, _The Negro in Africa and America_, part iii, chapter iv.)

16. The work of Booker T. Washington, (Washington, _Up from Slavery_.