The Negro Problem (Classics in Black Studies) - Softcover

Booker T. Washington; W. E. B. Du Bois; Paul Laurence Dunbar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591021065 ISBN 13: 9781591021063

Publisher: Humanities Press, 2003

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About the Author:

Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915) was a renowned African American leader and spokesman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He headed the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama and authored a dozen books, including his autobiography, Up from Slavery.

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963) was a leading African American intellectual and activist of the early twentieth century. He helped found the NAACP, and throughout his long career published over a hundred articles and essays, and authored twenty-one books, including The Negro, The Gift of Black Folk, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, and Black Folk, Then and Now.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906) was a poet and novelist. He published three volumes of poetry and four novels.

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858 -1932) was a school teacher, a principal, a businessman, and an attorney, as well as a writer. He published more than fifty tales, short stories, and essays; a biography of Frederick Douglass; and three novels.

Synopsis:

Over one hundred years ago, African Americans looked forward to the new twentieth century with mixed feelings of pride and discouragement. It was at this uncertain time that this interesting collection of articles by leading African American citizens was published to address what was then commonly known as 'the Negro problem'. Looking back at this synopsis of African American affairs one can get a good sense of both the progress made and the problems yet to be overcome, some of which have still not been fully addressed. Issued in the centennial year of its original publication, this new edition of a valuable classic is complemented by an informative foreword by Bernard R. Boxill, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

About this edition

• Publisher: Humanities Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1591021065
• ISBN 13: 9781591021063
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236