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H. A., Internal Revenue Collector for Georgia, Atlanta, Ga. 202 SCARBOROUGH, W. S., Professor of Greek of Wilberforce University 414 SMITH, MRS. M. E. C., Teacher in Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Fla. 246 SMITH, R. S., Attorney, Washington, D. C. 92 SMYTH, PROF. J. H., President of Reformatory School of Virginia, Hanover, Va. 434 SPRAGUE, MRS. ROSETTA DOUGLASS, Washington, D. C. 167 STORUM, PROF. JAMES, Teacher in High School, Washington, D. C. 75 TALBERT, MARY B., Buffalo, N. Y. 17 TALLEY, T. W., Professor of Science, Tuskegee Institute 338 TERRELL, MRS. MARY CHURCH, Washington, D. C. 172 THOMPSON, R. W., Associate Editor of the Colored American 351 TUCKER, PROF. T. de S., Baltimore, Md. 418 TURNER, BISHOP H. M., D. D., LL. D., A. M. E. Church, Atlanta, Ga. 42 TURNER, PROF. C. H., Professor of Science in Clark University 162 WALLACE, W. W., Editor of Colored American Magazine 349 WALLER, REV. O. M., Rector of Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C. 363 WALKER, PROF. H. L., Principal High School, Augusta, Ga. 342 WASHINGTON, PROF. BOOKER T., President of Tuskegee Institute 142 WHITAKER, REV. J. W., Traveling Agent for Tuskegee Institute 359 WHITE, HON. GEO. H., Washington, D. C. 224 WILDER, DR. J. R., Physician and Surgeon, Washington, D. C. 210 WILLIAMS, REV. J. B. L., D. D., Pastor of M. E. Church, Fernandina, Fla. 120 WYCHE, REV. R. P., Pastor of Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, N. C. 123 YATES, MRS. JOSEPHINE S., Kansas City, Mo. 21 YOUNG, PROF. N. B., President of Florida State Normal and Industrial College 125

CONTENTS.
THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS BOOK BY ONE HUNDRED WRITERS:
TOPIC PAGE
I. DID THE AMERICAN NEGRO MAKE, IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, ACHIEVEMENTS ALONG THE LINES OF WEALTH, MORALITY, EDUCATION, ETC., COMMENSURATE WITH HIS OPPORTUNITIES? IF SO, WHAT ACHIEVEMENTS DID HE MAKE? 17
II. WILL IT BE POSSIBLE FOR THE NEGRO TO ATTAIN, IN THIS COUNTRY, UNTO THE AMERICAN TYPE OF CIVILIZATION? 42
III. HOW CAN THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS NOW EXISTING BETWEEN THE TWO RACES IN THE SOUTH BE STRENGTHENED AND MAINTAINED? 57
IV. SHOULD THE NEGRO BE GIVEN AN EDUCATION DIFFERENT FROM THAT GIVEN TO THE WHITE? 72
V. SHOULD THE IGNORANT AND NON-PROPERTY HOLDING NEGRO BE ALLOWED TO VOTE? 89
VI. IS THE CRIMINAL NEGRO JUSTLY DEALT WITH IN THE COURTS OF THE SOUTH? 92
VII. TO WHAT EXTENT IS THE NEGRO PULPIT UPLIFTING THE RACE? 115
VIII. IS IT TIME FOR THE NEGRO COLLEGES IN THE SOUTH TO BE PUT INTO THE HANDS OF NEGRO TEACHERS? 125
IX. WILL THE EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO SOLVE THE RACE PROBLEM? 142
X. WHAT ROLE IS THE EDUCATED NEGRO WOMAN TO PLAY IN THE UPLIFTING OF HER RACE? 167
XI. HOW CAN THE NEGROES BE INDUCED TO RALLY MORE TO NEGRO BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND TO THEIR PROFESSIONAL MEN? 186
XII. WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF THE GREAT MORTALITY AMONG THE NEGROES IN THE CITIES OF THE SOUTH AND HOW IS THAT MORTALITY TO BE LESSENED? 199
XIII. WHAT SHOULD BE THE NEGRO'S ATTITUDE IN POLITICS? 224
XIV. IS THE NEGRO AS MORALLY DEPRAVED AS HE IS REPUTED TO BE? 236
XV. IS THE YOUNG NEGRO AN IMPROVEMENT MORALLY ON HIS FATHER? 254
XVI. THE NEGRO AS A WRITER 270
XVII. DID THE AMERICAN NEGRO PROVE, IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THAT HE IS INTELLECTUALLY EQUAL TO THE WHITE MAN? 287
XVIII. WHAT PROGRESS DID THE AMERICAN WHITE MAN MAKE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ALONG THE LINE OF CONCEDING TO THE NEGRO HIS RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS? 291
XIX. THE NEGRO AS A LABORER 299
XX. THE NEGRO AS A CHRISTIAN 309
XXI. DOES THE NORTH AFFORD TO THE NEGRO BETTER OPPORTUNITIES OF MAKING A LIVING THAN THE SOUTH? 323
XXII. WHAT IS THE NEGRO TEACHER DOING IN THE MATTER OF UPLIFTING HIS RACE? 330
XXIII. IS THE NEGRO NEWSPAPER AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE ELEVATION OF THE NEGRO? 347
XXIV. ARE OTHER THAN BAPTIST AND METHODIST CHURCHES ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT NEGRO? 356
XXV. THE NEGRO AS A BUSINESS MAN 370
XXVI. THE NEGRO AS A FARMER 388
XXVII. THE NEGRO AS AN INVENTOR 399
XXVIII. WHAT THE OMEN? 414
XXIX. WHY THE NEGRO RACE SURVIVES 418
XXX. THE SIGNS OF A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR THE AMERICAN NEGRO 427
XXXI. NEGRO CRIMINALITY 434
XXXII. THE AMERICAN NEGRO'S OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA 442
XXXIII. THE NEGRO AND EDUCATION 445
XXXIV. A NEGRO IN IT 447
XXXV. THE NEGRO'S ADVERSITIES HELP HIM 449
XXXVI. THE AMERICAN NEGRO AND HIS POSSIBILITIES 454
XXXVII. IMPORTANT LESSONS FROM THE AWFUL TRAGEDY 464
XXXVIII. HOW TO HELP THE NEGRO TO HELP HIMSELF 468

THE EDITOR'S BIOGRAPHY, BY WALTER I. LEWIS.
Daniel Wallace Culp, compiler and editor of this book, was born about forty-seven years ago, of slave parents, four miles from Union Court House in South Carolina. His mother, Marilla by name, was an excellent type of the devout Christian woman of her day; she believed firmly in that God, whose inscrutable wisdom directed the ways of her race through paths that were truly hard. She hesitated not to