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E. C. Branson, Field Study of Negro Conditions (1917).Open the sourceAll sources
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- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Black church members in Orange County give $3.04 each to their churches, against $4.00 for white members
Walter Patten's survey worked out what religion cost each church member in the county in 1914: $3.04 for Black members and $4.00 for white members. Pastors' pay came to the same $2.05 a member in both groups; the gap was in buildings (88 cents against $1.04) and above all in missions (13 cents against 91).
People: Walter Patten · Eugene Cunningham Branson
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Patten's survey finds nearly nine in ten Black households in Orange County living in homes they own
The survey reported that close to nine-tenths of the dwellings of Black families in the county were occupied by their owners, with town households ahead of country ones in screening and upkeep. Branson read the figure as a measure of real economic gains since the war.
People: Eugene Cunningham Branson
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The county sanitation campaign reaches Black residents through their preachers and churches
In the 1915 county-wide drive for better sanitation, organizers found the Black churches the only real way to reach Black families. Black congregations took lantern-slide talks on unsafe privies as a fit church concern, while some white churches thought them out of place.
People: Eugene Cunningham Branson
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The survey finds fewer than six Black lodges and benefit societies in the whole county
Patten's study counted fewer than half a dozen sick benefit societies, burial orders and fraternal lodges among the county's Black residents. The societies in the Black churches of Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro were mostly church aid groups that raised mission money and cared for buildings and parsonages.
People: Walter Patten
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