William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama. This book written in a question and answer format is his view of the history or the “Negro Race” from Africa through slavery in the United States, and accomplishments after emancipation, and all fields of culture through near the end of the 19th Century. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters
1 Dedication, Preface and Publisher's Announcement 3 min 2 Africa 7 min 3 Negro 6 min 4 Slavery 14 min 5 Slavery Abolished 6 min 6 A Marble Shaft to the Memory of the Memory of Faithful Slaves 2 min 7 Population 8 min 8 Our Race Name 5 min 9 Financial Growth 4 min 10 The White South and Negro Education 7 min 11 What Negro Education Has Done for the South Since the War 3 min 12 What Benevolence Has Done for Negro Education 2 min 13 Schools 15 min 14 Deceased Race Leaders 2 min 15 The Negro as a Soldier 9 min 16 Negro Education During the Rebellion 3 min 17 Negroes in Federal Offices 8 min 18 Negro Members of Congress 4 min 19 Negro Lawyers 4 min 20 Negro Physicians 5 min 21 The Negro in Dentistry 4 min 22 Afro-American Authors 17 min 23 ''The Dying Bondman" 3 min 24 Great Words of a Great Man 4 min 25 Best Thoughts of Negro Leaders 17 min 26 The Negro Press 5 min 27 Representative Negro Editors 2 min 28 Negro Women Writers of Distinction 3 min 29 The Stage 7 min 30 Insurance 4 min 31 Banks 1 min 32 Sanitatariums and Hospital 3 min 33 Homes for the Negro Homeless 6 min 34 Artists 1 min 35 Negro Baptist Church 4 min 36 African Methodist Episcopal Church 3 min 37 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 3 min 38 C. M. E. Church in America 2 min 39 The Presbyterian Chuch and the Negro 2 min 40 Negro Cumberland Presbyterians 1 min 41 Underground Railroad 2 min 42 Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows in America 8 min 43 Scottish Rite Negro Masons 14 min 44 Independent Order Immaculate 2 min 45 The Order of Twelve 3 min 46 Negro Pythian Knights 2 min 47 Benevolent Order of Colored Professionals 1 min 48 The Y.M.C.A. Work 1 min 49 Miscellaneous Race Facts 37 min 50 Greatest Things on Earth 7 min
