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Morals and manners among Negro Americans report of a social study made by Atlanta University under the patronage of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund : with the proceedings of the 18th annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Monday, May 26th, 1913

Dill, Augustus Granville 1881-1956 (Added Author). Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963 (Added Author). Atlanta University. (Added Author). John F. Slater Fund. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author). Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems 1913 : Atlanta University) (18th : (Added Author).

Summary: Survey on several topics relating to the moral status of African Americans, on such topics as good manners, sound morals, cleanliness, personal honesty, home life, rearing of children, amusements for young people, caring for old people, the Church, and present conditions compared with the past. The survey results are reported by state and the responses vary widely, though they are mostly positive.

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Physical Description: electronic resource
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Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

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General Note:	Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Andrew Leiter. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Joby Topper, and Jill Kuhn Sexton. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community. Title from electronic title page.
Original Version Note:	Transcribed from: Morals and manners among Negro Americans : report of a social study made by Atlanta University under the patronage of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund : with the proceedings of the 18th annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Monday, May 26th, 1913 / edited by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, Director of Publicity and Research, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Augustus Granville Dill, Sometime Associate Professor of Sociology in Atlanta University. Atlanta, Ga. : The Atlanta University Press, 1914, c1915 140 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. The Atlanta University Publications ; no. 18. Includes index.
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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