NEGROES: Obliteration

Frank Hamilton Hankins, professor of sociology at Smith College (girls), lectured at Columbia University, Manhattan, last week. Said he: "I have made an exhaustive study of the Negro question. The Negro in this country bids fair to disappear absolutely within a couple of hundred years.

"The black race has decreased relatively for the last 20 years. The Negro population is about 12,000,000. It increased only 650,000 in the decade between 1910 and 1920.

"I will prophesy that by the year 1935 the Negro death rate will equal the birth rate and from...

Want the full story?

Subscribe Now

Subscribe
Subscribe

Learn more about the benefits of being a TIME subscriber

If you are already a subscriber sign up — registration is free!