Contains seven essays, written by some of America's foremost civil rights speakers, activists and leaders: 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 and The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day by T. Thomas Fortune.