The Golden Age, “Facts About the American Negro — Negro Characteristics”
“the faithfulness of Negroes has endeared them to true Americans in all ages. … The Negroes are peaceful and law-abiding. They have never been accused of night-riding and lynching. They have shown that they can suffer without becoming embittered, and can forgive those who have done them wrong. As a race they are happy, gentle, affectionate and humorous; and most of them are honest and industrious.”
A sub-section of the same unsigned cover article. It is offered in the black population's defence, against the claim that black Americans were disorderly, and it is immediately followed by an anecdote about a former slave who returned each Christmas to his old master. The section "The Negro and The South" that follows says the best type of Southerner "tries to be just to the Negro and to avoid pampering him".
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Provenance and verification note for The Golden Age, Facts About the American Negro — Negro Characteristics
Confidence note. Read page by page from the item's djvu.xml on 19 September 2026; the passage straddles the leaves numbered 551 and 552 of the 26 May 1920 issue. Wording confirmed; OCR damage repaired.
Scan provenance. Internet Archive item “Magazines: The golden age, 1920”.
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Notes. The section stands between the lynching figures and the account of a former slave who returned each Christmas to his old master, inside an article written against the treatment of black Americans.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-race-ga-1920-0526-negro-characteristics