Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt
by William James Edwards
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About this eBook
- Author
- Edwards, William James, 1869-1950
- Title
- Twenty-five years in the Black Belt
- Credits
- Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E151: History: America: United States
- Subject
- Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute (Ala.) -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31055
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31055
- Release Date
- January 23, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE BLACK BELT — Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt — BY — WILLIAM J. EDWARDS — THE CORNHILL COMPANY BOSTON — Copyright, 1918 by The Cornhill Company — TO MY LOVING WIFE WHO ENCOURAGED ME IN ALL MY EARLY STRUGGLES AND AIDED ME IN ALL MY ACHIEVEMENTS
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.PREFACE — TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE BLACK BELT — TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE BLACK BELT
- 5.CHAPTER 1. — Childhood Days.
- 6.CHAPTER 2. — Shadows.
- 7.CHAPTER 3. — A Ray of Light.
- 8.CHAPTER 4. — Life at Tuskegee.
- 9.CHAPTER 5. — Reconnoitering.
- 10.CHAPTER 6. — Founding the Snow Hill School.
- 11.CHAPTER 7. — Small Beginnings.
- 12.CHAPTER 8. — Campaigning for Funds in the North.
- 13.CHAPTER 9. — Results.
- 14.CHAPTER 10. — Origin of the Jeanes Fund.
- 15.CHAPTER 11. — Appreciation.
- 16.CHAPTER 12. — Graduates and Ex-students. — Sketch of My Life.
- 17.CHAPTER 13. — The Solution of the Negro Problem. — The White Man’s Solution. — The Negro’s Method of Solution. — Fallacy of the Master and the Bible Remedy. — Only One Road to the Solution. — The Attitude of the North Towards This Problem.
- 18.CHAPTER 14. — The Greatest Menace of the South.
- 19.CHAPTER 15. — The Negro Exodus.
- 20.CHAPTER 16. — The Negro and the Public Schools of the South.
- 21.CHAPTER 17. — Where Lies the Negro’s Opportunity?
- 22.CHAPTER 18. — School Problems of a Tuskegee Graduate.
- 23.CHAPTER 19. — Benefits Wrought by Hardships.
- 24.CHAPTER 20. — The Negro and the World War.
- 25.APPENDIX — Address Delivered by Mr. Edwards on the Twentieth Anniversary of His Graduation from Tuskegee.
- 26.APPENDIX — ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MR. EDWARDS IN BESSEMER, ALABAMA — “THE SIGNS OF TIMES”
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