African American Writers
Responsibility of the whole country for the Negro--Progress in the past--Same methods of education do not fit all cases--Proved in the case of the Southern Negro--Illustrations--Lack of money--Comparison between outlay for schools North and South--Duty of North to South.
Responsibility of the whole country for the Negro--Progress in the past--Same methods of education do not fit all cases--Proved in the case of the Southern Negro--Illustrations-...
3. Chapter 3Decadence of Southern plantation--Demoralization of Negroes natural--No home life before the war--Too much classical education at the start--Lack of practical training-- Illustr...
4. Chapter 4The Negroes' proper use of education--Hayti, Santo Domingo, and Liberia as illustrations of the lack of practical training-- Present necessity for union of all forces to further...
5. Chapter 5The author's early life--At Hampton--The inception of the Tuskegee School in 1881--Its growth--Scope--Size at present--Expenses--Purposes--Methods--Building of the chapel--Work...
6. Chapter 6The Negro race in politics--Its patriotic zeal in 1776--In 1814--In the Civil War--In the Spanish War--Politics attempted too soon after freedom--Poor leaders--Two parties in th...
7. Chapter 7Difficulty of fusion--Africa impossible as a refuge because already completely claimed by other nations--Comparison of Negro race with white--Physical condition of the Negro--Pr...
8. Chapter 8Population--Emigration to the North--Morality North and South--Dangers: 1. incendiary advice; 2. mob violence; 3. discouragement; 4. newspaper exaggeration; 5. lack of education...
9. Chapter 9In this volume I shall not attempt to give the origin and history of the Negro race either in Africa or in America. My attempt is to deal only with conditions that now exist and...
10. Chapter 10In order that the reader may understand me and why I lay so much stress upon the importance of pushing the doctrine of industrial education for the Negro, it is necessary, first...
11. Chapter 11In the heart of the Black Belt of the South in _ante-bellum_ days there was a large estate, with palatial mansion, surrounded by a beautiful grove, in which grew flowers and shr...
12. Chapter 12One of the main problems as regards the education of the Negro is how to have him use his education to the best advantage after he has secured it. In saying this, I do not want...
13. Chapter 13In this chapter I wish to show how, at Tuskegee, we are trying to work out the plan of industrial training, and trust I shall be pardoned the seeming egotism if I preface the sk...
14. Chapter 14It has become apparent that the effort to put the rank and file of the coloured people into a position to exercise the right of franchise has not been the success that was expec...
15. Chapter 15One of the great questions which Christian education must face in the South is the proper adjustment of the new relations of the two races. It is a question which must be faced...
16. Chapter 16Before ending this volume, I have deemed it wise and fitting to sum up in the following chapter all that I have attempted to say in the previous chapters, and to speak at the sa...