"How is it in New York?" I asked.
"In New York?" He stopped to consider. "In New York I am tolerated."
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The total number of municipal employees is 55,006—Negro employees, 511—Percentage of Negro to whole, 0.9.
[2] "Story of the Riot," published by Citizens Protective League.
[3] New York Age, July 27, 1905.
[4] New York Tribune, July 24, 1905.
[5] A southern student says, "The Negro in Richmond is arrested for small offences and fined in the city courts. He is treated with considerable roughness and harshness in his punishment for these offences. It looks as though he were being imposed upon as an individual of the lower strata of society. But the Negro responds so impulsively to what appeals, that constant fear, dread, and impressiveness of the police act well as resistants to temptations."
[6] Ray Stannard Baker, "Following the Color Line," p. 269.
[7] The following story of Athens, Georgia, told by a Northerner teaching in the South, illustrates this point. "The city of Athens was planning to inaugurate a public school system, and also wished to 'go dry.' It made a proposal to the colored voters promising that if their combined vote would carry the city, two schools should be built, of equal size and similar structure for each race. I visited Athens shortly after the two buildings were built, and I found two beautiful brick buildings very similar in all their appointments. At an interval of several years I again visited the little city and again spent an hour in the same brick school-house of the colored folk.