The Negro Problem

This classic collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, features contributions from notable African-American thinkers of the post-Civil War era, aiming to redefine the role of Black individuals during the Jim Crow period and combat white supremacy through racial uplift. The anthology includes influential essays such as Charles Chesnutt's "The Disfranchisement of the Negro," W. E. B. DuBois's "The Talented Tenth," and Wilford Horace Smith's "The Negro and the Law."