Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt

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Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt by William James Edwards.

Contents

• TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE BLACK BELT5
• Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt7
• WILLIAM J. EDWARDS7
• THE CORNHILL COMPANY BOSTON7
• Copyright, 1918 by The Cornhill Company7
• TO MY LOVING WIFE WHO ENCOURAGED ME IN ALL MY EARLY STRUGGLES AND AIDED ME IN ALL MY ACHIEVEMENTS7
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS10
• PREFACE11
• TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE BLACK BELT16
• TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE BLACK BELT17
• CHAPTER 1.18
• Childhood Days.18
• CHAPTER 2.22
• Shadows.22
• CHAPTER 3.26
• A Ray of Light.26
• CHAPTER 4.30
• Life at Tuskegee.30
• CHAPTER 5.35
• Reconnoitering.35
• CHAPTER 6.42
• Founding the Snow Hill School.42
• CHAPTER 7.44
• Small Beginnings.44
• CHAPTER 8.48
• Campaigning for Funds in the North.48
• CHAPTER 9.53
• Results.53
• CHAPTER 10.57
• Origin of the Jeanes Fund.57
• CHAPTER 11.59
• Appreciation.59
• CHAPTER 12.65
• Graduates and Ex-students.65
• Sketch of My Life.68
• CHAPTER 13.76
• The Solution of the Negro Problem.76
• The White Man’s Solution.77
• The Negro’s Method of Solution.78
• Fallacy of the Master and the Bible Remedy.79
• Only One Road to the Solution.80
• The Attitude of the North Towards This Problem.81
• CHAPTER 14.83
• The Greatest Menace of the South.83
• CHAPTER 15.89
• The Negro Exodus.89
• CHAPTER 16.93
• The Negro and the Public Schools of the South.93
• CHAPTER 17.97
• Where Lies the Negro’s Opportunity?97
• CHAPTER 18.101
• School Problems of a Tuskegee Graduate.101
• CHAPTER 19.106
• Benefits Wrought by Hardships.106
• CHAPTER 20.110
• The Negro and the World War.110
• APPENDIX115
• Address Delivered by Mr. Edwards on the Twentieth Anniversary of His Graduation from Tuskegee.115
• APPENDIX121
• ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MR. EDWARDS IN BESSEMER, ALABAMA121
• “THE SIGNS OF TIMES”121
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE127

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