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Black Leaders
Franklin Frazier to use them as examples of the uncritical reporting of the black press.
Frazier caustically remarked that "as in the case of many other wealthy Negroes,
when this Negro multimillionaire died, only $100,000 remained of his reputed
$3,000,000 fortune." E. Franklin Frazier, Black Bourgeoitse: The-Rise ofa New Mtd-
dle Class in the United States (New York, 1957), 155.
4. Who's Who in Colored America: A Biographtcal Dictionary of Notable Liv-
ing Persons of African Descent in America (7 vols.; New York, 1927-1950). His death
was reported in Jessie Parkhurst Guzman (ed.), Negro Yearbook, 1952, (New York,
1952), 382.
5. Bundy, McDonald, 281, 332, "Death Comes to the World's Richest Negro,"
66; Adams, Tall Black Texans, 152; Arthur H. Lewis, The Day They Shook the Plum
Tree (New York, 1963), 81.
6. Bundy, McDonald, 112-113; Houston Informer, Oct. 31, Nov. 7, 1925;
Dallas Morning News, Sept. 18, 1949; Lewis, Day They Shook the Plum Tree, 81.
7. Dallas Morning News, Sept. 18, 1949; Houston Informer, Oct. 31, Nov. 7,
1925,July 15, 1950; Dallas Express, Apr. 19, 1924, July 15, 1950; Fort Worth Star-
Telegram, quoted in Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Texas
(Fort Worth, 1941), 19870; Bundy, McDonald, 263-282.
8. Bundy, McDonald, 1-15; Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 6, 1950; Lewis, Day
They Shook the Plum Tree, 81-82; McDonald to W. L. Dixon, Mar. 14, 1911, in
Bundy, McDoanld, 202; Houston Informer, July 8, 1950.
9. Dallas Morning News, Sept 14, 1949; Kansas City Call, Feb. 2, 1940; Lewis,
Day They Shook the Plum Tree, 82, Douglass Geraldyne Perry, "Black Populism:
The Negro in the People's Party in Texas" (M.A. thesis, Prairie View University,
1945), 29; William ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald Folder, Arthur H. Lewis Notes
(Free Library of Philadelphia). A copy of the materials from the McDonald folder in
the Lewis Notes are in the possession of the author, courtesy of Arthur H. Lewis and
Frances H. Ritchey. Information on the 1887 student strike at Roger Williams
University can be found in James M. McPherson, "White Liberals and Black Power in
Negro Education, 1865-1915," American Historical Revtew, LXXV (June, 1970),
1371.
10. Bundy, McDonald, 15, 20-24, 33, 81-90; Adams, Tall Black Texans, 151;
Lewis, Day They Shook the Plum Tree, 82; Lawrence D. Rice, The Negro in Texas,
1874-1900 (Baton Rouge, 1971), 197.
11. Bundy, McDonald, 91-98; Dallas Express, June 5, 1926; "From Poverty to
Banker," VI, 47; Murphy, "Negro Segregation Practices in Texas," 90; Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, July 6, 1950; Lady George Munchus-Forde, "History of the Negro in
Fort Worth-Syllabus for a High School Course" (M.A. thesis, Fisk University,
1941), 140.
12. Dallas Express, May 29, June 5, 1926, July 8, 15, 1950; Texas Writers' Pro-
ject, Fort Worth, 22458; Vivienne McDonald v. W. M. McDonald, divorce granted
in District Court, Seventeenth Judicial District, Tarrant County, Texas (certified copy
in author's files); Jackson, Sure Foundation, 564-565; Adams, Tall Black Texans,
152; Houston Informer, June 5, 1926, June 29, 1929, Apr. 18, Oct. 10, 1936,July 8,
15, 1950.106
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