Half a Man
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Mary White Ovington. Half a Man
Half a Man
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
FOOTNOTES:
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I "UP FROM SLAVERY"
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CHAPTER II. WHERE THE NEGRO LIVES
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CHAPTER III. THE CHILD OF THE TENEMENT
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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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