THE
NEGRO PROBLEM



CONTENTS

I[Industrial Education for the Negro]
Booker T. Washington7
II[The Talented Tenth]
W.E. Burghardt DuBois31
III [The Disfranchisement of the Negro]
Charles W. Chesnutt77
IV[The Negro and the Law]
Wilford H. Smith125
V [The Characteristics of the Negro People]
H.T. Kealing161
VI [Representative American Negroes]
Paul Laurence Dunbar187
VII [The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day]
T. Thomas Fortune211

[Transcriber's Note: Variant spellings have been left in the text. Obvious typos have been corrected and indicated with a footnote.]