African American Writers

The Negro Problem

The necessity for the race's learning the difference between being worked and working. He would not confine the Negro to industrial life, but believes that the very best service which any one can render to what is called the "higher education" is to teach the present generatio...

Chapters

8. Chapter 8

_Ignorance._ The causes of his ignorance all know. That he has thrown off one-half of it in forty years is a wonderful showing; but a great incubus remains in the other half, an...

9. Chapter 9

In looking over the field for such an article as this, one just begins to realize how many Negroes are representative of something, and now it seems that in closing no better na...

6. Chapter 6

Notwithstanding the manifest meaning of equality of citizenship contained in the constitutional amendments, it was found necessary to reinforce them by a civil rights law, enact...

1. Chapter 1

The necessity for the race's learning the difference between being worked and working. He would not confine the Negro to industrial life, but believes that the very best service...

7. Chapter 7

"He could not be found the first day; I looked all among the dead on the battle field for him and he was not there. Next day I got a permit to go through the hospitals, and I lo...

3. Chapter 3

The problem of training the Negro is to-day immensely complicated by the fact that the whole question of the efficiency and appropriateness of our present systems of education,...

4. Chapter 4

These restrictions fall into three groups. The first comprises a property qualification--the ownership of $300 worth or more of real or personal property (Alabama, Louisiana, Vi...

5. Chapter 5

The sole excuse made in the South for the prevalent injustice to the Negro is the difference in race, and the inequalities and antipathies resulting therefrom. It has nowhere be...

2. Chapter 2

You misjudge us because you do not know us. From the very first it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole ob...

10. Chapter 10

Mindful, therefore, of the Negro's two hundred and forty-five years of slave education and unrequited toil, and of his thirty years of partial freedom and less than partial oppo...