Survey of Cape Girardeau Negro Community

Collection — Box: 2612, Folder: 004

Identifier: 2003.006

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1923-1924

Rights Statement

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Biographical / Historical

In 1920, the YMCA Student Conference in Hollister, Missouri, called for universities and colleges to organize a course and curricula “for the purpose of giving college men the opportunity of studying and understanding the race problems and to create, thru this study, a public opinion in favor of a better understanding between the races…” Southeast Missouri State Teacher’s College President W.S. Dearmont attended this meeting and requested that the sociology department conduct such a study. Dr. M.R. Thompson created a senior level semester long class on the study of racial characteristics, prejudices, attitudes, and tendencies. In the final two weeks of the semester the students went out into the community in order to collect data for the final project.

Extent

1 folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Reports and correspondence resulting from a senior sociology seminar at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, intended to study race relations in Cape Girardeau. Included are the form given to students for interviews, the class’ final report, the report of a student, Alma Meyer, and her correspondence with local, state, and national organizations on the conditions of African Americans throughout the nation.