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E. Nelion Palmer, “A Note on the Development of Negro Lodges in the United
States.”
Arthur Raper, “Race and Class Pressures.”
Ira DeA. Reid, “The Negro in the American Economic System.”
Edward A. Shils, “The Bases of Social Stratification in Negro Society.”
Bernhard J. Stern, “The Negro in Adult Education.”
Samuel A. StoufFer and Lyonel C. Florant, “Negro Population and Negro
Population Movements: 1860-1940, in Relation to Social and Economic Factors.”
Doxey Wilkerson, “The Negro in American Education” (fragment).
T. J. Woofter, Jr., “The Negro and Agricultural Policy.”
The Advisory Committee appointed by the Corporation has gone
through all the published and unpublished memoranda listed above.
Coming to the material from outside and viewing it with fresh eyes, the
Committee felt justified in giving the following appraisal:
The Committee found that every manuscript submitted offered significant
contributions. In serving the purposes of the Study so well, the contributors necessarily
subordinated their individual publication interests to the interests of the central
project. This is evidence of unselfish team-play which deserves respect and
commendation.[1]
To this high appreciation, which needs no amplification on my part, I want
to add some words of personal gratitude to my colleagues in the first stage
of the study. The collaboration in the study—which embraced, in
friendship and concerted efforts, white and Negro men and women of different
specialties, ages, and previous accomplishments—gave more than is
contained in the 15,000 typewritten pages of manuscript. Even about the
specific problems of race relations, which we were studying together, I
learned much more from our informal conferences than I can ever duly
account for in this book.
To Mrs. Rowena Hadsell Saeger I remain grateful for her great
devotion and, specifically, for the efficient manner in which she relieved
me of much office work in directing the study, thereby allowing me to use
much of the year for continuing my field trips.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, The
Urban League, The Commission for Interracial Cooperation, private and
public research institutions, several branches of the federal government,
and state and municipal authorities in different parts of the country, and,
in addition, a great number of individuals, have aided me and my
collaborators to an extent which makes any detailed acknowledgment difficult.
The first stage of the study closed with the completion of the several
research memoranda which are published or, in unpublished form, are
made available for students of the Negro problem.
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