The Negro Problem (book)
Collection of essays edited by Booker T. Washington / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Negro Problem is a collection of seven essays by prominent Black American writers, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Booker T. Washington, and published in 1903. It covers law, education, disenfranchisement, and Black Americans' place in American society.
Authors | Booker T. Washington W. E. B. Du Bois Charles W. Chestnutt Wilford H. Smith H.T. Kealing Paul Laurence Dunbar T. Thomas Fortune |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | J. Pott & Company |
Publication date | 1903 |
Like much of Washington's own work, the tone of the book was that Black Americans' social status in the United States was a matter of personal responsibility, but it also confronted issues of legal and social racism.[1][2] While this represented the point of view of the authors at the time, some—Du Bois, for example—would later revise their stance to consider the effects of systemic and institutional racism.[citation needed] Washington and Du Bois were again reunited in the 1907 collection The Negro in the South.[3]