The Negro problem / contributions by Booker T. Washington ... [et al.] ; with an introduction by Bernard R. Boxill.
Contributors: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
Edition: Centennial ed.
Series: Classics in Black studies
Publisher: Humanity Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: African Americans.; African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Description: "One hundred years ago, African Americans looked forward to the new twentieth century with mixed feelings of pride and discouragement. While they could point to the tremendous progress many of them had made since the end of slavery under the dynamic leadership of Booker T. Washington, the majority of White Americans showed little willingness to accept Blacks as equals, and in the South segregation was practically institutionalized through the recently enacted Jim Crow laws." "It was in these uncertain times that this compelling collection of articles by leading African Americans was published to address what was then commonly known as "the Negro problem." The collection begins with a piece by Booker T. Washington on the value and purpose of stressing industrial education for Black Americans. This is followed by the now famous article by W. E. B. DuBois called "The Talented Tenth" in which he argues for the cultivation of an elite corps of Black intellectuals who would then work to uplift the African American masses. Other contributors discuss the disenfranchisement of Blacks, the broader subject of the people of color, and outstanding representative Black Americans."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 18-19).
Originally published: New York : J. Patt, 1903. With new introduction.
Table of contents: title: Industrial education for the Negro / Booker T. Washington; title: The talented tenth / W.E. Burghardt DuBois; title: The disfranchisement of the Negro / Charles W. Chesnutt; title: The Negro and the law / Wilford H. Smith; title: The characteristics of the Negro people / H.T. Kealing; title: Representative American Negroes / Paul Laurence Dunbar; title: The Negro's place in American life at the present day / T. Thomas Fortune.