Half a Man

Half a Man
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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 endure the position in which he is placed, and in the summer he comes North to be a man. No,» correcting himself, "to be half a man. A Negro is wholly a man only in Europe. Half a man! During the six years that I have been in touch with the problem of the Negro in New York this characterization has grown in significance to me. I have endeavored to know the life of the Negro as I know the life of the white American, and I have learned that while New York at times gives full recognition to his manhood, again, its race prejudice arrests his development as certainly as severe poverty arrests the development of the tenement child. Perhaps a study of this shifting attitude on the part of the dominant race, and of the Negro's reaction under it, may not be unimportant; for the color question cannot be ignored in America, nor should the position taken by her largest city be overlooked.

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Mary White Ovington. Half a Man

Half a Man

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

FOOTNOTES:

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I "UP FROM SLAVERY"

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER II. WHERE THE NEGRO LIVES

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER III. THE CHILD OF THE TENEMENT

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER IV. EARNING A LIVING—MANUAL LABOR AND THE TRADES

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CHAPTER V. EARNING A LIVING—BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS

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CHAPTER VI. THE COLORED WOMAN AS A BREAD WINNER

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CHAPTER VII. RICH AND POOR

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CHAPTER VIII. THE NEGRO AND THE MUNICIPALITY

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CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION

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APPENDIX

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Mary White Ovington

The Status of Black Man in New York

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He attempted to drag her out. The woman clung to the window, the conductor called in the driver to help him, and together they dragged and pulled and at last threw her into the street. Badly hurt, she nevertheless jumped back into the car. The driver galloped his horses down the street, passing every one until a policeman was found who pushed the woman out, not, however, until she had taken the number of the car. She then made her way home.

Elizabeth Jennings took the case into court, and it came before the Supreme Court of the State in February, 1855, Chester A. Arthur, afterwards President of the United States, being one of the lawyers for the plaintiff. The judge's charge was clear on the point that common carriers were bound to carry all respectable people, white or colored, and the plaintiff was given $225 damages, to which the court added ten per cent and costs; and to quote the New York Tribune's comment on the case,11 "Railroads, steamboats, omnibuses, and ferryboats will be admonished from this as to the rights of respectable colored people."12

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