Fraternal Organizations, African American

Because African Americans faced unequal access to schools, hospitals, social organizations, and even cemeteries before the civil rights movement's successes in the 1950s and 1960s, they often had to pool their resources to develop these needed services, as well as to develop networks for job information. Fraternal organizations were so important to African Americans' economic and social needs that W. E. B. Du Bois expressed admiration for them in the report that he edited of the Twelfth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problem, held at Atlanta University in 1907 . In a resolution ... // 96% Remaining