PART III
THE NEGRO IN THE NATION
VIII. The Mulatto: The Problem of Race Mixture 151
IX. Lynching, South and North 175
X. An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders over Methods of Dealing with Their Own Problem 216
XI. The Negro in Politics 233
XII. The Black Man's Silent Power 252
XIII. The New Southern Statesmanship 271
XIV. What to Do About the Negro--A Few Conclusions 292
Index 311
ILLUSTRATIONS
An Old Black "Mammy" with White Child _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE
Fac-similes of Certain Atlanta Newspapers of September 22, 1906 7
James H. Wallace 10
R. R. Wright 10
H. O. Tanner 10
Rev. H. H. Proctor 10
Dr. W. F. Penn 10
George W. Cable 10
Showing how the Colour Line Was Drawn by the Saloons at Atlanta, Georgia 35
Interior of a Negro Working-man's Home, Atlanta, Georgia 46
Interior of a Negro Home of the Poorest Sort in Indianapolis 46
Map Showing the Black Belt 66
Where White Mill Hands Live in Atlanta, Georgia 71
Where some of the Poorer Negroes Live in Atlanta, Georgia 71
A "Poor White" Family 74
A Model Negro School 74
Old and New Cabins for Negro Tenants on the Brown Plantation 85
Cane Syrup Kettle 92
Chain-gang Workers on the Roads 92
A Type of the Country Chain-gang Negro 99
A Negro Cabin with Evidences of Abundance 110
Off for the Cotton Fields 110
Ward in a Negro Hospital at Philadelphia 135
Studio of a Negro Sculptress 135
A Negro Magazine Editor's Office in Philadelphia 138
A "Broom Squad" of Negro Boys 138
A Type of Negro Girl Typesetter in Atlanta 164
Mulatto Girl Student 164
Miss Cecelia Johnson 164
Mrs. Booker T. Washington 173
Mrs. Robert H. Terrell 173
Negroes Lynched by Being Burned Alive at Statesboro, Georgia 179
Negroes of the Criminal Type 179
Court House and Bank in the Public Square at Huntsville, Alabama 190
Charles W. Chesnutt 215
Dr. Booker T. Washington 218
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois 225
Colonel James Lewis 240
W. T. Vernon 240
Ralph W. Tyler 240
J. Pope Brown 252
James K. Vardaman 252
Senator Jeff Davis 252
Governor Hoke Smith 252
Senator B. R. Tillman 252
Ex-Governor W. J. Northen 252
James H. Dillard 275
Edwin A. Alderman 275
A. M. Soule 275
D. F. Houston 275
George Foster Peabody 275
P. P. Claxton 275
S. C. Mitchell 286
Judge Emory Speer 286
Edgar Gardner Murphy 286
Dr. H. B. Frissell 286
R. C. Ogden 286
J. Y. Joyner 286
_PART ONE_
THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH