The Negro Problem by Booker T. Washington et al.
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"The Negro Problem" by Booker T. Washington et al. is a collection of seven essays published in 1903. Written by prominent Black American writers including W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar during the Jim Crow era, these essays explore law, education, disenfranchisement, and Black Americans' place in society. The collection presents contrasting viewpoints on racial uplift, from Washington's emphasis on industrial education to Du Bois's advocacy for cultivating the
"Talented Tenth" through classical education. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Contributor | Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 |
| Contributor | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 |
| Contributor | Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 |
| Contributor | Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928 |
| Contributor | Kealing, H. T. (Hightower Theodore), 1860-1918 |
| Contributor | Smith, Wilford H. (Wilford Horace), 1863-1926 |
| Title | The Negro Problem |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Problem_(book) |
| Contents | Industrial education for the Negro / Booker T. Washington -- The talented tenth / W.E. Burghardt DuBois -- The disfranchisement of the Negro / Charles W. Chesnutt -- The Negro and the law / Wilford H. Smith -- The characteristics of the Negro people / H.T. Kealing -- Representative American Negroes / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The Negro's place in American life at the present day / T. Thomas Fortune. |
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Produced by Suzanne Shell, Melissa Er-Raqabi, and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 51.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E151: History: America: United States |
| Subject | African Americans |
| Subject | African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964 |
| Subject | African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 15041 |
| Release Date | Feb 14, 2005 |
| Last Update | Dec 14, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 872 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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