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Title: Crisis
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, ed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Subjects: African Americans
Publisher: (New York, Crisis Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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oes of the ear lines leading to the park. •I The Oklahoma legislature failed to passa bill for the establishment of a reformatoryfor colored youth. fl Negroes of Sedalia, Mo., are building atheatre. ^ Colored people at Tulsa, Okla., are tryingto raise funds for a reading room. Q The legislature of Missouri is consider-ing a bill appropriating $130,000 for aninstitute for incorrigible Negro girls atTipton. Q Oberlin is a suburb of Raleigh, N. C,peopled by well-to-do colored folk. *ll Muskogee, Okla., has a colored populationof 10,000. Negroes own a clothing store withstock valued at $35,000, and a millinery anddry-goods store of similar proportions. Thereare fifty groceries, four drug stores, onejewelry shop, a bank, two insurance com-panies and numerous other commercialand financial enterprises. ^ The United Negroes Association isnegotiating for the purchase of a farm be-tween Wappingers Falls and New Ham-burgh, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to be usedas a Negro orphanage. 64 THE CRISIS
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fl The Carnegie library for colored peopleat Houston, Tex., has been opened. Thebuilding cost $15,230 and the site was bought for $1,500 by the Negroes. The city hasappropriated $1,500 a year for the main-tenance of the institution. ALONG THE COLOR LINE 65 *II According to a report by Asa E. Martin,a white teacher of Kansas City, Mo., Negroesof that city own property valued at$1,900,000. One man owns almost one-tenthof this. *II The board of supervisors of NoxubeeCounty, Miss., offers prizes for corn cropsgrown by Negroes of the county. Sixtymen and forty boys have entered the contest. ECONOMICS. OEVENTY-FIVE Negro families have^ moved from Oklahoma to Californiabecause of prejudice in the former State.The party has several thousand dollars toinvest in California lands. fl The Metropolitan Realty and InvestmentCompany, of Ocala, Fla., has just erected a$20,000 building. The company was organ-ized three years ago and is capitalized at$20,000. ^ Southern cotton mills are beginning toemp

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