THE NEGRO PROBLEM By Booker T. Washington and Others CONTENTS I Industrial Education for the Negro Booker T. Washington 7 II The Talented Tenth W.E. Burghardt DuBois 31 III The Disfranchisement of the Negro Charles W. Chesnutt 77 IV The Negro and the Law Wilford H. Smith 125 V The Characteristics of the Negro People H.T. Kealing 161 VI Representative American Negroes Paul Laurence Dunbar 187 VII The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day T. Thomas Fortune 211
A NEGRO EXPLORER AT THE NORTH POLE By Matthew A. Henson With A Foreword By Robert E. Peary Rear Admiral, U. S. N., Retired And An Introduction By Booker T. Washington CONTENTS page Foreword v Introduction xv
CHAPTER I The Early Years: Schoolboy, Cabin-Boy, Seaman, and Lieutenant Peary's Body-Servant—First Trips to the Arctic 1
CHAPTER II Off for the Pole—How the Other Explorers Looked—The Lamb-Like Esquimos—Arrival at Etah 15
CHAPTER III Finding of Rudolph Franke—Whitney Landed—Trading and Coaling—Fighting the Ice-packs 26
CHAPTER IV [x]Preparing for Winter at Cape Sheridan—The Arctic Library 35
CHAPTER V Making Peary Sledges—Hunting in the Arctic Night—the Excitable Dogs and Their Habits 40
CHAPTER VI The Peary Plan—a Rain of Rocks—My Friends, the Esquimos 46
CHAPTER VII Sledging to Cape Columbia—Hot Soldering in Cold Weather 52
CHAPTER VIII In Camp at Columbia—Literary Igloos—The Magnificent Desolation of the Arctic 62
CHAPTER IX Ready for the Dash to the Pole—The Commander's Arrival 70
CHAPTER XI [xi]Fighting up the Polar Sea—Held up by the "Big Lead" 78
CHAPTER XII Pioneering the Way—Breaking Sledges 93
CHAPTER XIII The Supporting-Parties Begin to Turn Back 103
CHAPTER XIV Bartlett's Farthest North—His Quiet Good-By 116
CHAPTER XVI The Fast Trek Back to Land 140
CHAPTER XVII Safe on the Roosevelt—Poor Marvin 145
CHAPTER XVIII After Musk-Oxen—The Doctor's Scientific Expedition 153
CHAPTER XIX [xii]The Roosevelt Starts for Home—Esquimo Villages—New Dogs and New Dog Fights 161
CHAPTER XX Two Narrow Escapes—Arrival at Etah—Harry Whitney—Dr. Cook's Claims 170
CHAPTER XXI Etah to New York—Coming of Mail and Reporters—Home! 180
Appendix II—List of Smith Sound Esquimos 196 ILLUSTRATIONS matthew a. henson Frontispiece nothing facing page robert e. peary in his north pole furs 76 the four north pole esquimos 77 camp morris k. jesup at the north pole 122 matthew a. henson immediately after the sledge journey to the pole and back 123 the "roosevelt" in winter quarters at cape sheridan 138 matthew a. henson in his north pole furs, taken after his return to civilization 139