Description Originally published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of the blacks living in Philadelphia in 1896-7.
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The report they received, however, was of quite a different nature.
Some suspect that the study was meant, by those funding it, to show how the black community was responsible for a number of problems within the city.
DuBois was hired by the University of Pennsylvania to conduct the study, under what some believe to be false pretenses.
Description Originally published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of the blacks living in Philadelphia in 1896-7