THE STATUS OF THE NEGRO IN NEW YORK HALF A MAN THE STATUS OF THE NEGRO IN NEW YORK BY MARY WHITE OVINGTON WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. FRANZ BOAS OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK LONDON, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA 1911 Copyright, 1911, by Longmans, Green, and Co. THE · PLIMPTON · PRESS [W · D · O] NORWOOD · MASS · U · S · A TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER THEODORE TWEEDY OVINGTON Miss Ovington's description of the status of the Negro in New York City i

Six years ago I met a young colored man, a college student recently returned from Germany where he had been engaged in graduate work. He was born, he told me, in one of the Gulf States, and I questioned him as to whether he intended going back to the South to teach. His answer was in the negative. "My father has attained success in his native state," he said, "but when I ceased to be a boy, he advised me to live in the North where my manhood would be respected. He himself cannot continually endu

The federal census in 1900 contained a volume on the Negro in the United States, a source of information quoted by nearly every writer on the American Negro. The tables in that volume, however, do not classify by cities, and any one desiring information regarding the Negro in some especial city must search through other volumes. As this is a lengthy task, I am affixing a list of the tables in the census of 1900, treating of the Negro in New York City, believing that it may also be a guide to stu