NEGRO YEAR BOOK

An

Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro.
1916-1917

MONROE N. WORK
In Charge of

Division of Records and Research

Tuskegee Normal and

Industrial Institute

EDITOR

PUBLISHED BY

The Negro Year Book
Publishing Company

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA

ROBERT E. PARK, President
EMMET J. SCOTT, Treasurer

MONROE N. WORK, Secretary

Copyright by

Negro Year Book Company
1916

AGRICULTURE, 305-315.

Negro farmers increasing, 305; Farm property rapidly increasing, 306; Relative

value of cash and share tenancy, 307; Principal crops raised by Negroes, 308;

Farm Demonstration Work, 308; Farm Tenure, 311.

FIF NEGRO TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS, 316-318.

First Negro Insurance Company, 318; Fifty years' business progress, 318; Some

Negro Business Men, 320; Business Leagues, 322; Business League Directory,

322; Negro Banks, 330; Bank Directory, 332.

CRIME, 335-338.

Differences in number of prisoners considered Vitiate comparison of Crime

Rates, 335; Rate of Crime higher in the North, 335; Negro Crime Rate Lower

than Rate for Emigrant Races, 336; Lynchings, 336.

HEALTH, 338-354.

Mortality Statistics, 338; Number of Deaths per 100,000 from certain

diseases, 340; Health Charts, 341; Physicians, 355; Medical Associations, 356;

Hospitals, 358; Necrology, 361.

POPULATION, 364-389. 1

From 1790-1910, 364; Map, percentage of Negroes in total Population,

365; Black and Mulatto population, 366; Sex, 366; Marital conditions, 367;

Negro Population in North and South, 367; in South by States, 369; Migration,

371; Urban and Rural Population, 372; Black Counties, 373; Population in

cities, 377; Negroes of Voting and School Age and Illiterates by States, 388.

NÁTIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, 390-393.

Educational, 390; for economic advancement, 390; for professional ad-

vancement, 391; for political advancement, 391; in the interest of women, 392;

for general advancement of the Negroes, 392; for improving social conditions,

393.

SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS FOR NEGROES, DIRECTORY OF, 393-395.

FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS, 395-400.

General statement concerning, 395-396; the principal organizations, 396-400.

PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS, 400-417.

Number, 400; Religious, 401; School, 405; Organs of National Associations, 406;

Magazines of General Literature, 407; Fraternal, 408; Newspapers, 409.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES, 418-455.

Bibliographies, 418; Collections of Books by Negroes on Negro, 418; Anti-

Slavery discussions, 419; Pro-Slavery discussions, 421; Slave Trade, 422; Coloni-

zation, 423; Slave narratives, 424; Slavery in Particular States, 425; Histories

including Slavery controversy, 425; Economic and social conditions in South,

426; Reconstruction Period, 426; Present conditions, 428; Publications of Com-

mittee of Twelve, 430; Special Studies relating to Negro, 430; Books by Negro

writers, 434; Articles in current periodocals on Negro, 437; On education, 437;

On Economic Conditions, 449; On Crime, 445; On Health and S

On Suffrage, 448; On Religion, 450; On Race Problem, 451:

relating to the mind of the Negro, 455.

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