Negro Problem

The Negro Problem is a collection of six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century. Written from the African American point of view these essays show how far race relations have progressed, and how far we have yet to go.

Included are:
Industrial Education for the Negro by Booker T. Washington
The Talented Tenth by W.E. Burghardt DuBois
The Disfranchisement of the Negro by Charles W. Chesnutt
The Negro and the Law by Wilford H. Smith
The Characteristics of the Negro People by H.T. Kealing

Representative American Negroes by Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day by T. Thomas Fortune