The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America

by W. E. B. Du Bois

[60] Journal of Negro History, Vol. 1, p. 163.

[61] Bruce, Economic History of Virginia, Vol. 2, pp. 405-6.

[62] Atlanta University Publications: Cf. The Negro Artisan, 1902-1912, and Economic Cooperation among Negro Americans, 1907.

[63] Alice Dunbar Nelson in Journal of Negro History, Vol. 2, p. 52.

[64] Alice Dunbar Nelson, in the Journal of Negro History, Vol. 1, p. 375.

[65] Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, Journey through Texas, and Journey in the Back Country.

[66] Prior to the Matzeliger machine the McKay machine was patented, designed for making the heaviest and cheapest kind of men’s shoes. The Matzeliger machine was designed for light work, women’s shoes, etc., and was the most important invention necessary to the formation of the United Shoe Machinery Company.

[67] H. E. Baker, in Journal of Negro History, Vol. 2, pp. 21ff.

[68] Baker: The Colored Inventor, p. 7.

[69] U. S. Census of 1920. Wilcox-Du Bois, Negroes in the United States (U. S. Census bulletin No. 8, 1904).