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James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871-June 26, 1938): A Chronology | p. xv |
Introduction | p. 3 |
New York Age Social Editorials | |
Race Prejudice and Discrimination | p. 9 |
Henry Ford's New Role (February 4, 1915) | p. 11 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Clansman (March 4, 1915) | p. 12 |
The Recent Ripper Case (March 25, 1915) | p. 13 |
The New Era (April 1, 1915) | p. 14 |
The Proof of Equality (April 8, 1915) | p. 14 |
A Trap (May 6, 1915) | p. 16 |
A Weak Argument (June 10, 1915) | p. 17 |
Some Recent Publications (June 17, 1915) | p. 17 |
Watching The White Man Play (December 30, 1915) | p. 19 |
Nature and Some Sociologists (January 6, 1916) | p. 21 |
Saluting the Flag (April 4, 1916) | p. 23 |
Between the Devil and the Deep Sea (September 27, 1917) | p. 25 |
Turn the Enemy's Flank! (April 19, 1917) | p. 26 |
The Hour of Opportunity (October 18, 1917) | p. 27 |
Colored Officers in the Army (October 18, 1917) | p. 30 |
Pure Americans (November 8, 1917) | p. 30 |
Experienced Men Wanted (November 8, 1917) | p. 31 |
"Why Should a Negro Fight?" (June 29, 1918) | p. 33 |
"Negro" with a Big "N." (August 17, 1918) | p. 36 |
Army Qualifications (May 10, 1919) | p. 38 |
The Absurdity of It (July 5, 1919) | p. 39 |
The American Legion and the Negro (October 25, 1919) | p. 39 |
Talking about Criminals (November 22, 1919) | p. 40 |
Crushing Out Radicalism (November 29, 1919) | p. 41 |
The Obvious Thing To Do (November 29, 1919) | p. 43 |
Learning What Is in the Back of a Negro's Head (July 24, 1920) | p. 44 |
A Thorn in the kkk's Side (April 9, 1921) | p. 45 |
How Opinion Is Created (March 4, 1922) | p. 46 |
An Exploded Tradition (March 4, 1922) | p. 47 |
The Absurdity of American Prejudice (September 9, 1922) | p. 48 |
Let Them Come (February 10, 1923) | p. 49 |
A Forgotten Friend (February 10, 1923) | p. 50 |
The New Exodus (March 3, 1923) | p. 51 |
Lynching and Mob Violence | p. 53 |
The Frank Case Again (October 29, 1914) | p. 55 |
Lawlessness in the United States (November 12, 1914) | p. 55 |
Anglo-Saxon Supremacy in Mississippi (December 3, 1914) | p. 56 |
Reaping the Whirlwind (February 25, 1915) | p. 58 |
A New Crime (April 22, 1915) | p. 59 |
Concerns Not Even the Sheriff (August 5, 1915) | p. 60 |
Not So in Mississippi (August 12, 1915) | p. 60 |
A Sign of Hope (January 20, 1916) | p. 61 |
Anarchy in Georgia (January 27, 1916) | p. 62 |
Those Valiant Texans (June 1, 1916) | p. 63 |
The Silent Parade (July 26, 1917) | p. 64 |
An Army with Banners (August 3, 1917) | p. 65 |
More Toll for Houston (February 9, 1918) | p. 66 |
Methods To Abolish Lynching (August 24, 1918) | p. 67 |
Teaching Negroes "a Lesson" (September 13, 1919) | p. 70 |
Dealing with Mobs (October 11, 1919) | p. 71 |
Women | p. 73 |
The Letter from a Colored Wife and Mother (April 20, 1915) | p. 75 |
Woman Suffrage (October 21, 1915) | p. 75 |
The Suffrage Parade (October 28, 1915) | p. 76 |
A Comparison (November 11, 1915) | p. 77 |
The Colored Nurses (July 20, 1918) | p. 79 |
Protesting Women and the War (September 21, 1918) | p. 80 |
Smoking Women (February 20, 1920) | p. 81 |
The Colored Woman Voter (September 18, 1920) | p. 82 |
Beautiful Women (November 26, 1921) | p. 84 |
Equality of Privileges for Women (September 2, 1922) | p. 85 |
Economics and Employment | p. 87 |
Dr. Washington's Practical Suggestion (November 19, 1914) | p. 89 |
The Harlem Gold Mine (December 24, 1914) | p. 90 |
Girl Waiters on Dining Cars (January 14, 1915) | p. 92 |
The Business League (August 26, 1915) | p. 93 |
More about Employment (September 30, 1915) | p. 94 |
Where Is The Man? (June 7, 1917) | p. 96 |
Cotton Is King (September 21, 1918) | p. 98 |
A New Wrinkle in Civil Service Discrimination (May 10, 1919) | p. 99 |
The Future Harlem (January 10, 1920) | p. 100 |
A New Danger To Be Met (January 1, 1921) | p. 101 |
Southern Political Economy Exploded (July 7, 1922) | p. 102 |
Education | p. 105 |
The Harlem Public Library (November 5, 1914) | p. 107 |
What Is Your Brain-Power? (November 26, 1914) | p. 108 |
Howard University Attacked (February 18, 1915) | p. 110 |
The Apportionment Of Public School Funds in the South (March 11, 1915) | p. 111 |
"Let Down Your Buckets" (April 29, 1915) | p. 113 |
An Open Air Lecture Course (May 6, 1915) | p. 114 |
The Importance of the Negro to the South (August 16, 1916) | p. 115 |
The New President of Howard University (November 22, 1919) | p. 116 |
The Proposed Department of Education (January 28, 1922) | p. 117 |
Democracy at Harvard (June 24, 1922) | p. 118 |
Exclusion in Our Universities (October 14, 1922) | p. 119 |
Black Leadership | p. 121 |
The Norfolk "Get Together" Conference (December 10, 1914) | p. 123 |
Honorable Charles W. Anderson's Record (December 10, 1914) | p. 124 |
The Passing of Jack Johnson (April 8, 1915) | p. 125 |
Sam Lucas (January 20, 1916) | p. 126 |
Dean Pickens (May 17, 1919) | p. 127 |
Rabbit-Hearted Leaders (October 11, 1919) | p. 128 |
"A Crime Against Nature" (September 24, 1921) | p. 129 |
African Colonization Schemes (August 12, 1922) | p. 130 |
The Apotheosis of the Ridiculous (August 19, 1922) | p. 133 |
Marcus Garvey's Inferior Complex (September 2, 1922) | p. 134 |
A Negro Benefactor (September 2, 1922) | p. 135 |
Garvey (June 30, 1923) | p. 136 |
Religion | p. 137 |
Florida's New Christian Colony (November 5, 1914) | p. 139 |
Catholic Gains (March 25, 1915) | p. 139 |
Pagan Temples (April 13, 1915) | p. 140 |
Billy Sunday Cleans Up Paterson (May 27, 1915) | p. 141 |
What's the Matter with Church? (October 14, 1915) | p. 141 |
Sin and Pleasure (June 1, 1916) | p. 143 |
Responsibilities and Opportunities of the Colored Ministry (February 8, 1917) | p. 145 |
The Power of the Negro Church (July 9, 1917) | p. 146 |
The Interchurch World Movement (July 3, 1920) | p. 147 |
The Black and White Press | p. 149 |
Do You Read Negro Papers? (October 22, 1914) | p. 151 |
The New York Times Solves a Puzzle (November 5, 1914) | p. 152 |
Strong Words from the Globe (December 17, 1914) | p. 153 |
Comment Here and There (January 7, 1915) | p. 154 |
Perverted History (April 22, 1915) | p. 156 |
Why White People Should Read Negro Papers (December 2, 1915) | p. 158 |
Let Us Have the Truth (August 24, 1918) | p. 159 |
The Stories of Negro Life in the Saturday Evening Post (April 5, 1919) | p. 160 |
Reaping the Whirlwind (August 2, 1919) | p. 162 |
Report of the Department of Justice on the Radical Negro Press (November 29, 1919) | p. 164 |
Negro Publications in Danger (January 31, 1920) | p. 165 |
The Graham Sedition Bill (February 7, 1920) | p. 166 |
The Victory and the New York World (June 2, 1923) | p. 167 |
"Negro Americans, What Now?" | p. 169 |
Ruffianism in Harlem (April 29, 1915) | p. 170 |
Cut Out the Comedy (May 3, 1917) | p. 170 |
Following Up "The Negro and the Jew" (February 2, 1918) | p. 171 |
The Imitative Negro (September 21, 1918) | p. 172 |
New York Age Political Editorials | |
Politicians | p. 177 |
The Candidate Who Squares Up to Requirements (October 15, 1914) | p. 179 |
The Importance of Electing Whitman (October 29, 1914) | p. 181 |
The Extinguishment of "Coal Blaze" (November 12, 1914) | p. 181 |
President Wilson's "New Freedom" and the Negro (November 19, 1914) | p. 182 |
The President's Message (December 17, 1914) | p. 184 |
Bryan and His Million Men (December 17, 1914) | p. 185 |
Ex-Attorney General Wickersham to Our Defense (December 17, 1914) | p. 186 |
President Wilson's Transformation (January 14, 1915) | p. 189 |
Governor Slaton on Lynching (January 29, 1915) | p. 190 |
Washington and Lincoln (February 22, 1915) | p. 190 |
22 Caliber Statesmen (February 22, 1915) | p. 191 |
Florida Politics (June 15, 1916) | p. 192 |
Hughes the Nominee (June 15, 1916) | p. 193 |
Wake Up Colored Men! Wake Up! (November 2, 1916) | p. 194 |
Our Double Loss (December 7, 1916) | p. 195 |
Theodore Roosevelt Speaks (July 12, 1917) | p. 196 |
Harding Starts Well (November 13, 1920) | p. 197 |
Bryan on the Negro Question (March 31, 1923) | p. 197 |
Domestic Politics | p. 201 |
The Lost Sheep (November 19, 1914) | p. 203 |
The Supreme Court Again Dodges (December 3, 1914) | p. 204 |
Negro Exclusion Amendment Defeated (January 14, 1915) | p. 205 |
"A Vigilance Committee" (July 15, 1915) | p. 206 |
Hurtful Helpfulness (July 15, 1915) | p. 207 |
Capital Punishment (August 5, 1915) | p. 208 |
Early on the Job (December 23, 1915) | p. 209 |
Why the Difference? (February 3, 1916) | p. 210 |
Vote the Republican State Ticket (October 12, 1916) | p. 213 |
Under the Dome of the Capitol (May 3, 1917) | p. 214 |
The Japanese Question in California (July 12, 1919) | p. 215 |
The IWW Body in Congress (August 30, 1919) | p. 217 |
The "Jim Crow" Car in Congress (September 13, 1919) | p. 219 |
The Faults in Our Courts of Law (November 15, 1919) | p. 220 |
Report of the Justice Department on Sedition among Negroes (December 20, 1919) | p. 221 |
Enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment (February 28, 1920) | p. 223 |
A New Third Party (March 25, 1922) | p. 224 |
The Supreme Court Reverses Itself (March 21, 1923) | p. 225 |
Lloyd George on Prohibition (July 7, 1923) | p. 226 |
International Politics | p. 227 |
The After Results of the Great War (October 15, 1914) | p. 229 |
The Administration's Mexican Policy (October 29, 1914) | p. 229 |
Once More Haiti (October 29, 1914) | p. 230 |
The Art of Living (April 29, 1915) | p. 231 |
20th Century Civilization (May 13, 1915) | p. 232 |
The U.S. and Germany (May 13, 1915) | p. 233 |
The Diplomatic Muddle (February 24, 1916) | p. 234 |
Russian Democracy and the Jews (March 22, 1917) | p. 235 |
As Others See Us (April 26, 1917) | p. 326 |
As Others See Us (August 23, 1919) | p. 236 |
The Peace Treaty (July 5, 1919) | p. 238 |
Failure of the Peace Treaty (November 29, 1919) | p. 238 |
The Irish Question Again to the Front (December 27, 1919) | p. 239 |
Disarmament (July 9, 1921) | p. 240 |
The War-Making Power (July 9, 1921) | p. 241 |
Bernard Shaw on the United States (August 27, 1921) | p. 242 |
Gandhi a Prisoner (March 25, 1922) | p. 243 |
Diplomatic Preparedness (April 22, 1922) | p. 244 |
A Remarkable Little Book (February 10, 1923) | p. 244 |
New York Age Literary Editorials | |
Literature and Poetry | p. 249 |
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Other Books (January 7, 1915) | p. 251 |
A Poetry Corner (January 7, 1915) | p. 252 |
Shakespeare (April 20, 1915) | p. 254 |
About Poetry and Poetry Makers (December 16, 1915) | p. 256 |
Stranger than Fiction (December 23, 1915) | p. 258 |
Inside Measurement (March 2, 1916) | p. 260 |
The Negro in American Art (March 16, 1916) | p. 261 |
Prejudice and Art (May 11, 1916) | p. 263 |
Mock Culture (March 22, 1917) | p. 263 |
A Real Achievement (May 31, 1917) | p. 264 |
Superior Races (September 27, 1917) | p. 265 |
When Is a Race Great? (March 11, 1918) | p. 267 |
American Genius and It's Local (July 20, 1918) | p. 269 |
Some New Books of Poetry and Their Makers (September 7, 1918) | p. 271 |
Resurgence of the Negro in Literature (April 22, 1922) | p. 277 |
A Real Poet (May 20, 1922) | p. 279 |
Negro Theatrical Invasion of Europe (May 19, 1923) | p. 281 |
Music | p. 283 |
"The Poor White Musician" (September 23, 1915) | p. 284 |
American Music (January 13, 1916) | p. 286 |
Writers of Words and Music (March 2, 1918) | p. 288 |
Classic Music in New York (March 25, 1922) | p. 290 |
Notes | p. 293 |
Bibliography | p. 297 |
Index | p. 301 |
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