ABSTRACT
Negro communities everywhere display in the most glaring manner clear-cut problems of housing, employment, education, health, calling not only for expert planning but for formulation of Negro political programs. Negroes who care so much for society as to have any general political opinions at all are intent upon "respectability" in a middle class sense. To make political forecasts is hazardous. But forecasts are the aim of factual analysis. Indeed, its sole purpose, aside from scientific curiosity, is to furnish the basis for a practical discussion of future trends and possibilities. In the Negro problem there are certain dominating factors making a forecast considerably simpler than for the American nation at large. The political strength of such a dual system of political organization will depend primarily upon the cohesion of the local Negro political blocs in the several communities forming its basis.
