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The Difficulty of Rearing a Negro Family in Georgia, 1940. 'The Atlanta University publication on the American Negro Family says that while then the tendencies are hopeful, still the truth remains; sexual immorality is the greatest single plague spot [?] among Negro Americans, and its greatest cause is slavery and the present disregard of black women's virtue and self-respect both in law courts and custom in the South. The following words may be applied to the conditions in Georgia. Since an elevated family is fundamental to the progress of any people, the most important task of the Southern Negro has been the coming together and binding together of those blood relations which constitute the human family. The task has been difficult because neither the family traditions handed down...'. Note: "The Georgia Negro" - Asa H. Gordon, page 115'.