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The Extent of Negro Progress Monroe. N. Work, ed. Indexed by:   Subject | Author | Date | Document Type Listed Under:  Statistical Information Citation Information:  Monroe. N. Work. The Extent of Negro Progress. The Negro Yearbook, an Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1921-1922. The Negro Year Book Publishing Company: Tuskegee Institute, 1922. The Extent of Negro Progress On December 18, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment declaring slavery abolished in the United States was adopted. This freed the million or more slaves to whom the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 did not apply. It may be said for this reason that January 1, 1866 was the beginning of the opportunity for the Negroes in every part of the nation to make progress. In the past fifty-six years he has made a most remarkable progress. What follows show the extent of this progress:   1866 1922 Gain in Fifty-six years ECONOMIC PROGRESS Homes Owned Farms Operated Business Conducted Wealth Accumulated EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Per Cent Literate Colleges and Normal Schools Students in Public Schools Teachers in all Schools Property for Higher Education Annual Expenditures for Education Raised by Negroes RELIGIOUS PROGRESS Number of Churches Number of Communicants Number of Sunday Schools Sunday School Pupils Value of Church Property 12,000 20,000 2,100 $20,000,000 10 15 100,000 600 $60,000 $700,000 $80,000 700 600,000 1,000 500,000 $1,500,000 650,000 1,000,000 60,000 $1,500,000,000 80 500 2,000,000 44,000 $30,000,000 $28,000,000 $2,000,000 45,000 4,800,000 46,000 2,250,000 $90,000,000 638,000 980,000 57,900 $1,480,000,000 70 485 1,900,000 43,400 $29,940,000 $27,300,000 $1,920,000 44,300 4,200,000 45,000 2,200,000 $88,500,000