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Author : McCord Charles Harvey
Title : The american negro As a dependent, defective and delinquent
Year : 1914

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Preliminary. The time has come when advancing civilization must break with its old methods and its old motives of dealing with the submerged classes of society. Recent investigations, more or less scientific, made by university students, magazine writers, and politico-legal probes, by physicians, charity workers, and institutional custodians, by penologists, economists, and sociologists, have disclosed a mass of facts and described very varied types of living conditions not hitherto so well known, that are not only pregnant with social significance but at variance with traditional accep tation. Through the teaching of sociology and allied social sciences in our more progressive colleges and universities, through the public press which is always eager for the newest thing, through the efforts of the reformer who has his heart in his work, and of even the political demagogue who always keeps his ears to the ground, the public gener ally is becoming better informed and increasingly willing to listen to discussions of means and measures looking toward social betterment. Through the facts brought to light by investigations, the agitation that has followed, and the various programs of amelioration offered, the more thoughtful of us have arrived at a broader conception of social welfare and a deeper sense of social responsibility. ...