AS IT NOW IS—HOME OF A FREEMAN.
Residence of R. R. Church, Memphis, Tenn., the wealthiest colored man in the state; estimated at $250,000.

CONTENTS.

The Need of New Ideas and New Aims for a New Era[11]
The Status of the Family—The Conditions of Labor—Higher Plane of Morality.
Laying the Corner Stone[23]
The Tennessee Centennial[31]
Negro Building—History and Old Relics—Department of Arts—Mines and Minerals—Department of Dentistry—The Woman's Board.
Cotton States Industrial Exposition[45]
The Need of the Hour[47]
Unity[49]
Negro Business Association[51]
Negro Banks[53]
Negro Wealth by States[54]
Negro School-Teachers[55]
How to Teach Obedience[57]
Hints for Our Girls[59]
What Negro Women are Doing[61]
What Race Newspapers Have Done[62]
Race Evils[62]
Two Cultured Races[67]
The New Colored Woman[69]
Have Courage[72]
The South Given the Preference[74]
Mrs. Georgia Gordon Taylor[75]
Three Great Negroes[76]
Pointed Paragraphs from Race Newspapers[79]
Madam Sissiretta Jones[89]
Miss Hallie Q. Brown[91]
Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis[95]
Indorsement—To Henrietta Vinton Davis.
Rich Thoughts From Great Race Thinkers[98]
The Colored Physician in the South[113]
The First Colored Specialist[118]
Especial Company[119]
The Sphere of Woman[121]
The Mourning Preacher[124]
Our Greatest Drawback[127]
The Race Problem[128]
Mother's Treasures[146]
Gen. Antonio Maceo[149]
Married Life—Its Joys and Sorrows[157]
Intemperance[160]
Race Name—What Shall It Be?[167]
The Nation's Duty to the Negro[176]
The Negro as a Slave—The Negro as a Common Laborer—The Negro as a Soldier—The Negro as a Citizen—The Negro as a Southerner—The Negro in Politics.
Facts for Colored People[185]
Dr. William Key[195]
Jim Key[196]
A Soul at Auction[199]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.