Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — Cityward Trend of Negroes. [ARTICLE]

Cityward Trend of Negroes.

In the concluding installment of Ray Stannard Baker's series on the color line in the American Magazine, an explanation is given why the negroes of the South are drifting so rapidly to the cities. It is that they feel the laek of schooling for their children in the country and the lack of police protection. The difficulty of keeping a supply of good labor is causing the owners of the big plantations to ■ell off small farms to the more thrifty negroes. __ lj —