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Black Bourgeoise by Franklin Frazier

Large corporations tried to use the Black church in efforts to persuade the Negro workers not to join the unions. They were able to influence some Negro ministers until the Negro workers learned the role of the unions in modern industry. The policy of the Rosenwald Fund was to back aspiring Negroes in the fields of art, literature, science and in the teaching profession. It was hostile to any Negro who showed independence in his thinking in regard to racial and economic problems. Black teachers were influenced to limit instruction to or away from certain topics by threats of being placed on the "black list". Negro teachers were placed upon a "black list" indicating that they were not fit to teach in Negro schools because they did not have the "right" philosophy of racial adjustment. In addition a teacher could be placed upon the list by merely refusing to submit to insults by southern whites.
             The mulatto elite separated themselves from the black masses by assimilating the morals and manners of the slaveholding aristocracy. They acquired as a part of their family traditions the patterns of behavior which were associated with the idea of the southern lady and southern gentleman. As a rule, these families formed a closed circle from which excluded all who could not boast of similar ancestry and did not conform to the same standards of morals and manners. They were self-conscious of their "culture" which consisted of the enjoyment of English and in Louisiana, French classical literature music. They maintained literary societies in which they could enjoy and foster their "culture." The patterns found in rural communities as compared to urban black communities changed. The folk tradition of the Negro, like the genteel tradition, has been transformed as the result of migration and urbanization. .
             Patterns that had developed in the relationship between the "old" and "new" middle class blacks has also changed.


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