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Title: Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt

Author: William James Edwards

Release Date: January 23, 2010 [EBook #31055]

Language: English

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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE BLACK BELT

[Illustration: WILLIAM J. EDWARDS]

Twenty-Five Years
in the Black Belt

BY
WILLIAM J. EDWARDS

ILLUSTRATED

THE CORNHILL COMPANY
BOSTON

Copyright, 1918
by
THE CORNHILL COMPANY

TO MY LOVING WIFE WHO ENCOURAGED ME IN ALL MY
EARLY STRUGGLES AND AIDED ME IN
ALL MY ACHIEVEMENTS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

1. CHILDHOOD DAYS 1

2. SHADOWS 7

3. A RAY OF LIGHT 13

4. LIFE AT TUSKEGEE 18

5. RECONNOITERING 26

6. FOUNDING THE SNOW HILL SCHOOL 35

7. SMALL BEGINNINGS 37

8. CAMPAIGNING FOR FUNDS IN THE NORTH 43

9. RESULTS 49

10. ORIGIN OF THE JEANES FUND 54

11. APPRECIATION 56

12. GRADUATES AND EX-STUDENTS 63

13. THE SOLUTION OF THE NEGRO PROBLEM 77

14. THE GREATEST MENACE OF THE SOUTH 86

15. THE NEGRO EXODUS 94

16. THE NEGRO AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE SOUTH 100

17. WHERE LIES THE NEGRO'S OPPORTUNITY? 104

18. SCHOOL PROBLEMS OF A TUSKEGEE GRADUATE 109

19. BENEFITS WROUGHT BY HARDSHIPS 115

20. THE NEGRO AND THE WORLD WAR