Produced by Suzanne Shell, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * YOUR NEGRO NEIGHBOR THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO [Illustration: JOANNA P. MOORE] YOUR NEGRO NEIGHBOR BY BENJAMIN BRAWLEY Author of "A Short History of the American Negro," "The Negro in Literature and Art," etc. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1918 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1918. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I YOUR NEGRO NEIGHBOR 1 II THE NEGRO IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL REVIEW 10 III THE NEGRO AS AN INDUSTRIAL FACTOR 33 IV LYNCHING 41 V ASPECTS OF NEGRO EDUCATION 48 VI A GREAT MISSIONARY: JOANNA P. MOORE 61 VII SOME CRITICS AND THEIR FALLACIES 73 VIII THE PROMISE OF THE NEGRO 84 IX A PLEA FOR A MORALIST 91 YOUR NEGRO NEIGHBOR I YOUR NEGRO NEIGHBOR _To the People of the United States of America_, CITIZENS AND PATRIOTS: Our country is still in the midst of the greatest war in the history of mankind. Already our sons and brothers have died in Europe. While the sacrifice is great, and each day comes home more closely to us, there must be no ceasing of the conflict until victory is assured. The principles of Christ must prevail, and democracy must be given some chance in the world. Because we believe this, because we love our country, because we wish to see our country truly noble and great, I am once more asking your attention to the vital subject of the place of the Negro in our American life.