{"product_id":"2940012631060","title":"The Negro Problem","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I      Industrial Education for the Negro\u003cbr\u003e         _Booker T. Washington_         7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II      The Talented Tenth\u003cbr\u003e         _W.E. Burghardt DuBois_       31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII      The Disfranchisement of the Negro\u003cbr\u003e         _ Charles W. Chesnutt_        77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV      The Negro and the Law\u003cbr\u003e         _Wilford H. Smith_           125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  V      The Characteristics of the Negro People\u003cbr\u003e         _H.T. Kealing_               161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VI      Representative American Negroes\u003cbr\u003e         _Paul Laurence Dunbar_       187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII      The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day\u003cbr\u003e         _T. Thomas Fortune_          211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Industrial Education for the Negro_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy BOOKER T. WASHINGTON,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrincipal of Tuskegee Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The necessity for the race's learning the difference between being\u003cbr\u003e  worked and working. He would not confine the Negro to industrial life,\u003cbr\u003e  but believes that the very best service which any one can render to what\u003cbr\u003e  is called the \"higher education\" is to teach the present generation to\u003cbr\u003e  work and save. This will create the wealth from which alone can come\u003cbr\u003e  leisure and the opportunity for higher education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most fundamental and far-reaching deeds that has been\u003cbr\u003eaccomplished during the last quarter of a century has been that by which\u003cbr\u003ethe Negro has been helped to find himself and to learn the secrets of\u003cbr\u003ecivilization--to learn that there are a few simple, cardinal principles\u003cbr\u003eupon which a race must start its upward course, unless it would fail, and\u003cbr\u003eits last estate be worse than its first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt has been necessary for the Negro to learn the difference between being\u003cbr\u003eworked and working--to learn that being worked meant degradation, while\u003cbr\u003eworking means civilization; that all forms of labor are honorable, and all\u003cbr\u003eforms of idleness disgraceful. It has been necessary for him to learn that\u003cbr\u003eall races that have got upon their feet have done so largely by laying an\u003cbr\u003eeconomic foundation, and, in general, by beginning in a proper cultivation\u003cbr\u003eand ownership of the soil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty years ago my race emerged from slavery into freedom. If, in too many\u003cbr\u003ecases, the Negro race began development at the wrong end, it was largely\u003cbr\u003ebecause neither white nor black properly understood the case. Nor is it\u003cbr\u003eany wonder that this was so, for never before in the history of the world\u003cbr\u003ehad just such a problem been presented as that of the two races at the\u003cbr\u003ecoming of freedom in this country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor two hundred and fifty years, I believe the way for the redemption of\u003cbr\u003ethe Negro was being prepared through industrial development. Through all\u003cbr\u003ethose years the Southern white man did business with the Negro in a way\u003cbr\u003ethat no one else has done business with him. In most cases if a Southern\u003cbr\u003ewhite man wanted a house built he consulted a Negro mechanic about the\u003cbr\u003eplan and about the actual building of the structure. If he wanted a suit\u003cbr\u003eof clothes made he went to a Negro tailor, and for shoes he went to a\u003cbr\u003eshoemaker of the same race. In a certain way every slave plantation in the\u003cbr\u003eSouth was an industrial school. On these plantations young colored men and\u003cbr\u003ewomen were constantly being trained not only as farmers but as carpenters,\u003cbr\u003eblacksmiths, wheelwrights, brick masons, engineers, cooks, laundresses,\u003cbr\u003esewing women and housekeepers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI do not mean in any way to apologize for the curse of slavery, which was\u003cbr\u003ea curse to both races, but in what I say about industrial training in\u003cbr\u003eslavery I am simply stating facts. This training was crude, and was given\u003cbr\u003efor selfish purposes. It did not answer the highest ends, because there\u003cbr\u003ewas an absence of mental training in connection with the training of the\u003cbr\u003ehand. To a large degree, though, this business contact with the Southern\u003cbr\u003ewhite man, and the industrial training on the plantations, left the Negro\u003cbr\u003eat the close of the war in possession of nearly all the common and skilled\u003cbr\u003elabor in the South. The industries that gave the South its power,\u003cbr\u003eprominence and wealth prior to the Civil War were mainly the raising of\u003cbr\u003ecotton, sugar cane, rice and tobacco. Before the way could be prepared for\u003cbr\u003ethe proper growing and marketing of these crops forests had to be cleared,\u003cbr\u003ehouses to be built, public roads and railroads constructed. In all these\u003cbr\u003eworks the Negro did most of the heavy work. In the planting, cultivating\u003cbr\u003eand marketing of the crops not only was the Negro the chief dependence,\u003cbr\u003ebut in the manufacture of tobacco he became a skilled and proficient\u003cbr\u003eworkman, and in this, up to the present time, in the South, holds the lead\u003cbr\u003ein the large tobacco manufactories.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078894239984,"sku":"2940012631060","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012631060_p0.jpg?v=1763571031","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012631060","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}