It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give pause and look around him at the things which he has done, those which he might have done, and those which he intends to do. We pause, just at the beginning of another half century, taking stock of past achievements, present conditions, future possibilities. (Preface)
Chapters
1 Preface 4 min 2 Prince Saunders 9 min 3 James McCune Smith 22 min 4 Hilary Teague 13 min 5 Frederick Douglass 13 min 6 Charles H. Langston 26 min 7 Richard T. Greener 6 min 8 Robert Browne Elliot 34 min 9 John R. Lynch 9 min 10 Alexander Dumas, Fils 2 min 11 John M. Langston 7 min 12 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 9 min 13 Henry Highland Garnet 26 min 14 George L. Ruffin 12 min 15 Frederick Douglass 27 min 16 P.B.S. Pinchback 13 min 17 Alexander Crummell 20 min 18 Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 7 min 19 James Madison Vance 6 min 20 Booker T Washington 10 min 21 Booker T. Washington 8 min 22 Christian A. Fleetwood 26 min 23 Charles W. Anderson 12 min 24 William Sanders Scarborough 13 min 25 Nathan F. Mossell 12 min 26 George W. White 14 min 27 Levi J. Coppin 13 min 28 Fanny Jackson Coppin 9 min 29 William J. Gaines 9 min 30 Edward Wilmot Blyden 4 min 31 W. Justin Carter 23 min 32 Theophilus G. Steward 23 min 33 D. Webster Davis 21 min 34 Reverdy C. Ransom 29 min 35 James L. Curtis 6 min 36 Archibald H. Grimke 16 min 37 Francis J. Grimke 16 min 38 James E. Shepard 18 min 39 Robert Russa Moton 20 min 40 George William Cook 17 min 41 J. Milton Waldron 13 min 42 J. Francis Gregory 9 min 43 William C. Jason 11 min 44 William H. Lewis 31 min 45 Alice M. Dunbar 34 min 46 Kelly Miller 18 min 47 Robert T. Jones 9 min 48 Ernest Lyon 23 min 49 John C. Dancy 15 min 50 W. Ashbie Hawkins 14 min 51 W.E.B. Dubois 25 min
