posted by Tim Golden

on May 19, 2006

I searched the 'net for anything on DuBois and didn't come up with very much, and especially not much on the Philadelphia Negro. http://www.webdubois.org and http://www.library.umass.edu/ spcoll/collections/dubois/index.htm have the best stuff, with the second page having some cool pictures of W.E.B in his college days, etc... When sifting through the 1900 census stuff I came across 2 Turkish immigrants and 1 Greek immigrant living next to each other (maybe toghether, I don't remember) on South Street, one French family, only two kids whose parents didn't come from the same country (Austrian/Hungarian and English/Irish), and one black clergyman. I've only seen a couple of black familes in the data so far, but it seems as if black women are more often widowed than with women of other races.