The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921

text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook. Also, the transcriber added the Table of Contents. The Journal of Negro History 1921 Contents Vol VI—January, 1921—No. 1 Fifty Years of Negro Citizenship C. G. Woodson Remy Ollier, Mauritian Journalist and Patriot Charles H. Wesley A Negro Colonization Project in Mexico J. Fred Rippy Documents James Madison's Attitude toward the Negro Some Undistinguished Negroes Notes Proceedings of Annual Meeting Vol VI—April, 1921—No. 2 Making West Virginia a Free State Alrutheus A. Taylor Canadian Negroes and the John Brown Raid Fred Landon Negro and Spanish Pioneer in New World J. Fred Rippy Economic Condition of Negroes of New York Arnett G. Lindsay Documents The Appeal of the American Convention of Abolition Societies Correspondence Notes Vol VI—July, 1921—No. 3 The Material Culture of Ancient Nigeria William Leo Hansberry The Negro in British South Africa D. A. Lane, Jr. Baptism of Slaves in Prince Edward Island William Renwick Riddell Documents Notes Vol VI—October, 1921—No. 4 The Negro Migration of 1916-1918 Henderson H. Donald Notes The Journal of Negro History Vol. VI—January, 1921—No. 1 FIFTY YEARS OF NEGRO CITIZENSHIP AS QUALIFIED BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT The Historic Background The citizenship of the Negro in this country is a fiction. The Constitution of the United States guarantees to him every right vouchsafed to any individual by the most liberal democracy on the face of the earth, but despite the unusual powers of the Federal Government this agent of the body politic has studiously evaded the duty of safeguarding the rights of the Negro. The Constitution confers upon Congress the power to declare war and make peace, to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; to coin money, to regulate commerce, and the like; and further empowers Congress "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof." After the unsuccessful effort of Virginia and Kentucky, through their famous resolutions of 1798 drawn up by Jefferson and Madison to interpose State authority in preventing Congress from exercising its powers, the United States Government with Chief Justice John Marshall as the expounder of…