{"id":486,"date":"2017-10-22T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T15:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/?page_id=486"},"modified":"2017-10-22T15:27:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T15:27:26","slug":"1898-some-efforts-of-american-negroes-for-their-own-betterment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/sources\/documents\/black-men-reformers\/1898-some-efforts-of-american-negroes-for-their-own-betterment\/","title":{"rendered":"1898: Some Efforts of American Negroes for their own Betterment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edited by DuBois for the 1898 Atlanta Conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/scua.library.umass.edu\/digital\/dubois\/dubois3.pdf\">\u201cSome Efforts of American Negroes for their own Betterment\u201d<\/a> examines the rise of various black-operated benevolent organizations across the United States, including secret societies, the Church, and insurance societies. The work also includes a paper by Proctor on \u201cThe Church as an Institution for Social Betterment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edited by DuBois for the 1898 Atlanta Conference, \u201cSome Efforts of American Negroes for their own Betterment\u201d examines the rise of various black-operated benevolent organizations across the United States, including secret societies, the Church, and insurance societies. The work also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/sources\/documents\/black-men-reformers\/1898-some-efforts-of-american-negroes-for-their-own-betterment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2705,"featured_media":0,"parent":215,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-486","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}