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A
Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America (1928)
Compiled By Monroe
Work
Director
of Records and Research
Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial institute
(Sociologist 1866-1945)
PREFACE
he compiling of
A
Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America is an effort to furnish
extended and comprehensive references to sources of in-formation
relating to all phases of the present day life of the Negro, to
the conditions affecting this life and also to the
anthropological and historical background of the same.
The compiling of this bibliography which has
extended over a period of more than twenty years, has had an
interesting development. Work on it was first begun in
connection with a study of Africa, to assist in which references
on the subject were collected.
In 1912 the writer issued the first edition of
the Negro Year Book. One section of it, "A Select
Bibliography of the Negro," contained 408 classified
references. The amount of material in the bibliographical
section in each subsequent edition of the Negro Year Book was
increased and its scope widened.
There were, in the meantime, increasing
demands from persons interested in the study of the Negro for
more extended bibliographical materials on this subject than
were found in the Negro Year Book. These demands indicated the
need of issuing as a separate volume a more extended and
comprehensive bibliography of references relating to the Negro
than had hitherto been published.
In 1921 the Carnegie
Coporation of New York made a grant to the Department of
Records and Research of the Tuskegee Institute which enabled the
writer to begin in a large way to compile "A Bibliography
of the Negro." First of all a collection of the
bibliographies that had been published on this subject was made.
No one of them, it was found~ was at all extended or
comprehensive.
The Atlanta University Studies No.10, "A
Select Bibliography of the Negro American," compiled in
1905, contained 1992 alphabetically arranged but unclassified
references. The Library of Congress in 1906 issued a
bibliography, "A Select List of References on the Negro
Question." This contained 522 alphabetically arranged but
unclassified references. Numerous other less important
bibliographies were issued as appendices to books and articles
on the Negro.
During the five years, 1921 to 1925, a
collection of more than 30,000 references of all sorts on the
Negro was made. From these a classified list of some 10,000
references was compiled for publication as "A Select
Bibliography of the Negro in the United States." There was
in this compilation a brief appendix of references on the Negro
in Africa.
In the meantime interest in the bibliography
became international It was suggested that its scope be widened.
The result was that in the two years, 1926 and 1927, the
original compilation was revised and enlarged three times. Over
7,000 additional references were added. The title was changed
from "The Negro in the United States," to "The
Negro in Africa and America."
The compiler, through the cooperation of the
Phelps-Stokes Fund and the Tuskegee Institute, had the
opportunity to spend some time in Europe consulting with
individuals who were authorities on African languages and
cultures and collecting references for the bibliography from the
following libraries: The British Museum, London; Library of the
Royal Colonial Institute, London; Library of the Colonial
Office, London; Public Records Office, London;. Library of the.
Colonial Institute, Brussels; Bibliotheque de la Societe' Beige
de Missions Protestantes au Congo, Brussels; Library of the
Colonial Institute, The Hague; Seminar for Oriental Languages
(formerly Colonial Institute), Hamburg; Staatsbibliothek,
Berlin; Universitatsbibliothek, Berlin; Museen fur Tierkunde und
Volkerkunde, Dresden; Library Evangelical Missionary Society,
Basel; Library of the League of Nations, Geneva; Bibliotheque de
Ia Societe' des Missions Evangeliques, Paris; Bibliotheque du
Ministere des Colonies, Paris; Bibliotheque Publique de l'Agence
Generale des Colonies, Paris; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
Grateful acknowledgement is herewith made: To
the Tuskegee Institute for furnishing the opportunity and
providing the facilities necessary for compiling a work of this
magnitude; to Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal, to Mr.R.
R. Taylor, Vice-Principal and to other members of the
faculty, for their advice and assistance; to the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, the Phelps-Stokes Fund and the Laura
Spelman Rockefeller Memorial for financial assistance; to Dr.
Anson Phelps Stokes, President of the Pheips-Stokes Fund, for
his interest and assistance in collecting materials, in the
arrangement of the bibliography and the publishing of the same;
to Dr. C. T. Loram, Commissioner of Native Affairs, Union of
South Africa, for his suggestions relative to the scope of the
bibliography and securing materials from European sources; to
Mr. W. A. Slade, Chief Bibliographer of the Library of Congress,
for examining the manuscript and making helpful suggestions
relative to standard forms for reference entries, and other
criticisms leading to improvement in the arrangement of the
materials; to Dr. Erasmo Braga, Executive Secretary of the
Brazilian Branch of the Committee on Cooperation in Latin
America and Congress-man Professor Basilio de Magalhaes,
distinguished historian, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for their
assistance in procuring references relating to the Negr6 in
South America.
For examining the manuscript, supplying
references and making helpful criticisms, the compiler
acknowledges with gratitude his obligations to: Professor D. Westermann, Berlin, Director International Institute of African
Languages and Cultures; Dr. Bernhard Struck, Dresden, Museen fur
Tierkunde und Volkerkunde; Miss Alice Werner, London, The London
School of Oriental Studies; Miss Georgina A. Gollock, London,
International Council of Missions; Dr. Edwin W. Smith, London,
British and Foreign Bible House.
Other persons to whom we wish to make
acknowledgement and express appreciation for the help which they
rendered in the compilation of this work, are: Miss Ruth Anna
Fisher, London, Copyist; Mr. R. H. Simpson, London, Secretary,
American University Union; Mr. Hanns Vischer, London, Secretary
General, International Institute of African Languages and
Cultures; Dr. John H. Oldham, London, Secretary, International
Council of Missions; Miss B. D. Gibson, London, International
Council of Missions; Dr. Henri Anet, Brussels, Directeur de Ia
Societe' Belge de Missions Protestantes au Congo; Mr. Gaston D.
Perier, Brussels, The Colonial Institute; Dr. Walter Simon,
Berlin, Universitlitsbibliothek; Dr. Ernest Crous, Berlin,
Staatsbibliothek; Dr. Alfred Mans feld, Berlin, Deutsche
Gesellschaft fur Eingeborenenkunde; Reverend W. Oettli, Basel,
Secretary for Africa of the Evangelical Mission of Basel; Dr.
Henri Junod, Geneva, Swiss Romande Mission; Mr. Basil Mathews,
Geneva, World's Alliance of Young Men's Christian Association;
Mr. Finn T. B. Frus, Geneva, Secretary, Mandates Section League
of Nations; Mr. Harold Grimshaw, Geneva, Head of the Mandate
Department, International Labour Office, League of Nations;
Professor Andre Siegfried, Paris, Ecole des Sciences Politiques;
Dr. H. S. Krans, Paris, Secretary American University Union; M.
Daniel Couve, Paris, Directeur de la Socie'te' des Missions
Evangeliques de Paris; Mr. Alfred Zimmern, Paris, Deputy
Director of the League of Nations Institute for Intellectual
Cooperation; Professor Otto Dempwolff, Hamburg, Seminar fur
Afrikanische und Sudseesprachen; Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones,
Director, and Mr. L. A. Roy, Office Secretary of the
Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York; Dr. Charles H. Fahs, Director, and
Miss Hollis W. Hering, Librarian, Missionary Research Library,
New York; Mr. Charles S. Johnson, Editor of Opportunity, New
York; Mr. Arthur A. Schomburg, Collector of Old and Rare Books
on the Negro, New York; Mr. J. A. Rogers, Newspaper
Correspondent, New York; Mr. Lester A. Walton, Theatrical
Critic, New York; Mr. Thomas L. G. Oxley, Boston; and Professor
Joseph S. Price, West Virginia Collegiate Institute.
Grateful acknowledgement is also made to: Mr.
Ralph N. Davis; Miss Jessie W. Parkhurst; Miss Mayme V. Holmes;
Miss Irene Jones and Miss Wilna Russell of the Department of
Records and Research of the Tuskegee Institute for the faithful
work rendered in the preparation of the bibliography.
Monroe W. Work
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In 1904, Monroe Nathan Work
(1866-1945) came to Tuskegee to teach and to establish the
Department of Records and Research, which was to accumulate and analyze
statistics and records of black Americans. Publisher and compiler of the Negro
yearbook, he was born in Iredell County, North Carolina. He was
educated at the Chicago Theological Seminary and the University
of Chicago, from which he was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of
Arts in philosophy and Masters of Arts in sociology and
psychology in 1903. He began his educational career as professor
of pedagogy and history at the Georgia State Industrial College
in 1903. Work accepted in 1908 the position of director of the
department of records and research at Tuskegee Institute. This
position led to the biennial publication of the Negro Yearbook,
which supplied factual materials needed by schools and
libraries. As part of his research, Work
produced the periodic Lynching Reports that included information on all
lynchings, regardless of the race of the victim. There were eleven editions of
The Negro Yearbook.
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Through his research in Europe and America,
Monroe Work obtained important data for his compilation in 1928
of the
A
Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America. This publication was the first effort of its
kind. In one publication he presented the works or publications
about Negroes in all parts of the world from ancient ties to
1928.
In 1928, he received the Harmon Award in
Education for "scholarly research and educational publicity
through periodic publication of the Negro Yearbook and the
compilation of a
Bibliography of the Negro." In
1942, the University of Chicago Alumni Association presented him
with the Alumni Citation in recognition of his forty years of
public service.
The Tuskegee
Institute News Clippings File Collection is a major legacy of the
eminent black sociologist, Dr Monroe Nathan Work, who was Director of
the Tuskegee Institute Department of Records and Research from 1908
until his retirement in 1938, but who continued in the Department until
his death in 1945.
Bibliography
Hines, Linda Elizabeth Ott. "A Black Sociologist in a
Time of Trouble: Monroe Nathan Work, 1866-1945." Master's
thesis, Auburn University, 1972.
Moses, Sibyl E. "The Influence of Philanthropic Agencies
on the Development of Monroe Nathan Work's Bibliography of
the Negro in Africa and America," Libraries &
Culture 31 (Spring 1996): 326-41.
McMurry, Linda O.
Recorder of the Black Experience: A
Biography of Monroe Nathan Work. Baton Rouge: LSU Press,
1985.
Monroe. N. Work. "Catholic Negro Work." The
Negro Yearbook, an Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1921-1922.
The Negro Year Book Publishing Company: Tuskegee Institute,
1922.
Monroe. N. Work. "The Life of Charles B. Ray." Journal
of Negro History IV (October 1919), pp. 361-371.
Monroe N. Work. Population: Population Each Census Year,
1790-1910 (white, Negro and all others). The Negro Yearbook,
an Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1921-1922. The Negro
Year Book Publishing Company: Tuskegee Institute, 1922.
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