y keen and
lively interest in securing an appropriation of a hundred
thousand dollars for a Negro exhibit.

On the day the Committee finally revised the bill and voted on
it, Congressman Goldfogle was suffering intensely from
carbuncles, and was about to undergo a surgical operation.
Despite this, he went to the committee meeting, and there moved
the insertion of the provision for the appropriation for a Negro
exhibit.

Some members of the committee who were not favorable to the
project and others who were quite indifferent to it urged the
Congressman to allow the matter to remain in abeyance, saying
that it might be taken up at some future time. Judge Goldfogle,
however, insisted there was no time like the present and that the
colored men and women of the country ought to have an opportunity
to show through means of the proposed exhibit the remarkable
progress that they had made since the days when they emerged from
slavery. In the course of his remarks to the Committee, he said
that he came of a race that had been oppressed and which
centuries ago had been in slavery, and that had he lived forty
years after the children of Israel had passed out of the house of
bondage, he would have been thankful and grateful had anyone
given his people an opportunity to show the progress they had
made as free men.

Congressman Goldfogle called attention to the testimony that had
been given during the hearings before the Committee of the great
advancement made by the colored people in every avenue of life
from the time of their emancipation, and the credit that was due
to many of the men and women of the Negro race who had shown
themselves worthy of the freedom that happily this country
accorded them.

After quite a spirited debate, in which Judge Goldfogle warmly
espoused the cause of the colored man, the Committee, by a
majority of one vote, inserted the appropriation provision; and
thus, mainly through the efforts of this New York Congressman,
who has not a single colored vote in his district, the Negro
exhibit was established at the Jamestown Exposition.

BOOK REVIEWS

_A Social History of the American Negro._ By BENJAMIN BRAWLEY.
Macmillan Company, New York, 1921. Pp. 420.

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