WITH THANKS FOR SEVERE TEACHING
AND STIMULATING CRITICISM

CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
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]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Charles S. Gilpin as "The Emperor Jones"[Frontispiece]
Phillis WheatleyFacing p.[10]
Paul Laurence Dunbar"[34]
Charles W. Chesnutt"[46]
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois"[50]
William Stanley Braithwaite"[56]
Henry O. Tanner"[104]
Meta Warrick Fuller"[112]
Harry T. Burleigh"[130]

PREFACE