6. That Negro illiteracy is now only thirty per cent.

7. That Negro farm laborers and Negro farmers cultivate at least a

hundred million acres of land, of which forty-two and a half millions

are in farms owned or rented by Negroes.

8. That Negroes own twenty million acres of land, an area equal to that

of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

These facts are indisputable evidences of progress in the past and

afford great promise for the future.