商品簡介
One hundred years ago, African Americans looked forward to the new twentieth century with mixed feelings of pride and discouragement. While they could point to the tremendous progress many of them had made since the end of slavery under the dynamic leadership of Booker T. Washington, the majority of White Americans showed little willingness to accept Blacks as equals, and in the South segregation was practically institutionalized through the recently enacted Jim Crow laws.
It was in these uncertain times that this compelling collection of articles by leading African Americans was published to address what was then commonly known as "the Negro problem." The collection begins with a piece by Booker T. Washington on the value and purpose of stressing industrial education for Black Americans. This is followed by the now famous article by W. E. B. DuBois called "The Talented Tenth" in which he argues for the cultivation of an elite corps of Black intellectuals who would then work to uplift the African American masses. Other contributors discuss the disenfranchisement of Blacks, the broader subject of the people of color, and outstanding representative Black Americans.
作者簡介
Booker T. Washington?(1856 - 1915) was a renowned African American leader and spokesman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He headed the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama and authored a dozen books, including his autobiography, Up from Slavery.
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963) was a leading African American intellectual and activist of the early twentieth century. He helped found the NAACP, and throughout his long career published over a hundred articles and essays, and authored twenty-one books, including The Negro, The Gift of Black Folk, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, and Black Folk, Then and Now.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906) was a poet and novelist. He published three volumes of poetry and four novels.
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858 -1932) was a school teacher, a principal, a businessman, and an attorney, as well as a writer. He published more than fifty tales, short stories, and essays; a biography of Frederick Douglass; and three novels.
