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i364 An American Dilemma
2. Negroes and whites shake hands sometimes in all counties.
3. Negroes enter white people’s houses by the front door sometimes in Bolivar,
Davidson, Greene, Madison, and Shelby.
4. Whites use ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ sometimes in Davidson, Greene, and Madison when
addressing Negroes.
5. Whites and Negroes play games together sometimes in Bolivar, Davidson, and
Madison.
6. Negroes must use ‘Yes, sir,’ and ‘Yes, ma’am,’ sometimes in Davidson and Johnston.
7. Negroes may touch a white man without causing resentment in Davidson, Johnston,
Macon, and Shelby.”
“Where the etiquette is confused:
1. Negroes attend theaters patronized by whites in all counties but Madison.
2. Negroes can try on hats in all stores in all counties but Shelby.
3. Negroes can try on gloves in all stores in Bolivar, Davidson, Johnston, and Macon,
and in no stores in Greene.
4. Negroes must occupy a separate section while being waited on in all stores in
Coahoma, Macon, and Madison; in some stores in Davidson, Greene, Johnston, and
Shelby; and in no stores in Bolivar.
5. Negroes may sit in all public parks in Bolivar, Coahoma, Greene, and Macon; in
some parks in Davidson and Shelby; and in none in Johnston and Madison.
6. Negroes use hotels with whites in none of the counties.
7. Negroes use some restaurants with whites in Coahoma, Davidson, Madison, and
Shelby only, and these are separated by partition.
8. Negroes serve on juries sometimes in Coahoma, Greene, and Shelby, never in
Bolivar, Johnston, and Madison.
9. Negro lawyers may try cases in all counties except Madison.
10. Negroes are segregated in all courts except in Coahoma.
11. Whites work for Negroes sometimes in Bolivar, Davidson, Greene, Johnston,
and Madison; never in Coahoma, Macon, and Shelby.
12. Whites work zvith Negroes usually in Coahoma and Greene; sometimes in David-
son, Johnston, and Madison ; seldom if ever in Shelby.
13. Whites are served by Negro doctors in Davidson, Greene, Johnston, Madison,
and Shelby; not in Bolivar, Coahoma, and Macon.
14. Negroes usually vote in Coahoma, Davidson, Johnston, Macon, and Shelby;
sometimes in Greene and Madison.
15. Negroes and whites worship together sometimes in Coahoma, Davidson, Greene,
Macon, and Madison; never in Bolivar, Johnston, and Shelby.
16. Negroes drink with whites in drug and liquor stores in Coahoma; at beer ‘joints’
in Bolivar; when each party is about half drunk from whisky in Greene; and among
the lower classes occasionally in all counties.”
C. V. Roman, American Civilization and the Negro (1921; first edition, 1916),
p. 58.
Interview by Charles S. Johnson, Patterns of Negro Segregation^ pp. 52-53.
Other cases of this sort are cited by Johnson (ibid^ ; by R. R. Moton {What the Negro
Thinks [1929], p. 181); and by John A. Kenney (“The Inter-Racial Committee of
Montclair, New Jersey,” Journal of the National Medical Association [July-September,
1931 J, pp. 102-103),
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