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LIGHT AHEAD FOR THE NEGRO

LIGHT AHEAD
FOR THE NEGRO
BY
E. A. JOHNSON
AUTHOR OF
The School History of the Negro Race
Colored Soldiers in the Spanish American War
The Negro Almanac

THE GRAFTON PRESS
NEW YORK

Copyright 1904 by
E. A. JOHNSON.

PREFACE

The author dedicates this work to the thousands of sympathetic and well wishing friends of the Negro race. He is trying to show how the Negro problem can be solved in peace and good will rather than by brutality. His idea is that the Golden Rule furnishes the only solution.