THE
NEGRO PROBLEM
CONTENTS
| I | Industrial Education for the Negro | |
| Booker T. Washington | 7 | |
| II | The Talented Tenth | |
| W.E. Burghardt DuBois | 31 | |
| III | The Disfranchisement of the Negro | |
| Charles W. Chesnutt | 77 | |
| IV | The Negro and the Law | |
| Wilford H. Smith | 125 | |
| V | The Characteristics of the Negro People | |
| H.T. Kealing | 161 | |
| VI | Representative American Negroes | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 187 | |
| VII | The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day | |
| T. Thomas Fortune | 211 |
[Transcriber's Note: Variant spellings have been left in the text. Obvioustypos have been corrected and indicated with a footnote.]
Industrial Education for the Negro
By BOOKER T. WASHINGTON,
Principal of Tuskegee Institute
The necessity for the race's learning the difference between being worked and working. He would not confine the Negro to industrial life, but believes that the very best service which any one can render to what is called the "higher education" is to teach the present generation to work and save. This will create the wealth from which alone can come leisure and the opportunity for higher education.
One of the most fundamental and far-reaching deeds that has beenaccomplished during the last quarter of a century has been that by whichthe Negro has been helped to find himself and to learn the secrets ofcivil