Includes seven classic essays by some of the most provacative thinkers from the African-American community, providing a historical perspective on race relations in America. "Industrial Education for the Negro", by Booker T. Washington "The Talented Tenth", by W.E. Burghardt DuBois "The Disfranchisement of the Negro", by Charles W. Chesnutt "The Negro and the Law", by Wilford H. Smith "The Characteristics of the Negro People", by H.T. Kealing "Representative American Negroes", by Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day", by T. Thomas Fortune
