CONTENTS

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Preface[xi]
I.The Negro Genius[3]
II.Phillis Wheatley[10]
III.Paul Laurence Dunbar[33]
IV.Charles W. Chesnutt[45]
V.W. E. Burghardt Du Bois[50]
VI.William Stanley Braithwaite[56]
VII.Other Writers[65]
VIII.Orators.—Douglass and Washington[83]
IX.The Stage[97]
X.Painters.—Henry O. Tanner[103]
XI.Sculptors.—Meta Warrick Fuller[112]
XII.Music[125]
XIII.General Progress, 1918-1921[142]
XIV.Charles S. Gilpin[156]
Appendix:
1. The Negro in American Fiction[165]
2. Study of Bibliography[180]