PHOTO HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA

I am working on this book at the request of the picture editor
and collector.

There is, so far as I know, no other like it in the field at
all, therefore it should have great historical and cultural, as well as
educational, value.

The assembling of so many significant historical photographs
make it a most important book, arranged in sequence as they are to
tell not only the story of Negro history but of American history — and
one phase of our every expanding democracy — as well.

The book will be a comprehensive pictorial history of the Negro
in America — with a running commentary — from pre-slavery days to
the present, covering all the elements of that history — slavery, the
struggle for freedom, the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln, the Emanci-
pation, the Reconstruction, the building of educational institutions,
churches, businesses, the Negro in the theatre, arts and sports, and
all the contemporary activities of those who make up one-tenth of the
population of the United States from border to border and coast to
coast.