The American Negro Exhibit
Atlanta University
Occupations of Negroes and Whites
in Georgia, no.27
Ink and colored pencil chart on board, ca. 1900
Prints & Photographs Division
Bequest of Daniel A.P. Murray, ca. 1926 (46A.11)
Digital ID# ppmsca-08993
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The 1900 Paris Exposition's Palace of Social Economy and Congresses
Pavilion provided the perfect opportunity for W.E.B. Du Bois to
inform the masses the progress made by the American Negro from
emancipation to the present day 1900. The charts and photographs
prepared for display were to show the progress already attained
and how it compared with that of their counterparts. Featured is
an occupational pie chart demonstrating that African Americans
were engaged in the same basic employment as whites and a graph
highlighting the diversity of African American businesses in 1900.
It was prepared at Atlanta University where Du Bois was a professor
of sociology at the time.
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