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While the rental was $1.77_per room per month in the best 

 settlements, it was $2.04 per room pe r month for houses 

 o£ similar construction and value in the worst settlements — 

 the localities where the houses are crowded in rough and 

 rocky streets, intersected by railroad spur tracks. .This sim- 

 ply means t hat the Negro, occupying an inferi or bargain- 

 ing^ jgosition^J^^^xrjbite^^ of this class of 

 renta l proper ty. 



Such a condition adds to the discontent of the colored 

 pe ople-arid undoubtedly oinTftbutes ""To* the "willingness to 

 move!! The tenements of Northern cities, though often 

 more^ congcotcd and in s ome -ways more unsanitary, are 

 nevertheless, to he preferr ed t o these frame, hovels without 

 l ight, water , sewerage or paving, yet costing a relatively 

 high rent ! 



Rrntprtin n and Justice in the Coux is ■ Whipping as a 

 form of maintaining discipline on tmny plantations con- 

 ti nued lon ^ after t he rnlnreH mpn w^re frfH The superior 

 protection offered by the city from this and other forms of 

 rough handling for which the country Negro has little 

 redress has been a powerful influence for discontent with 

 rural protection. In the Southern city the Negro is prac- 

 tically as well protected from these flagrant forms of 

 violence and from mobs as in the Northern city. These in- 

 fluences may, therefore, be said to operate* more as causes 

 for movement from country to city than from South to 

 North. 



There is evidence, however, that in friction which brings 

 the N egro into court in th e^ftfMith n<a is in many instances 

 likely to receiv e a summary t rial. This question of justice 

 in the courts is one uppermost in the Negro mind and its 

 constant discussion probably has as much effect in adding 

 to the apprehension and discontent of the law-abiding Negro 

 as to the increase of the criminal class. The subject is one 

 which should be investigated much further than the scope 

 of this study permits. 



