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Tables of Contents for Charles W. Chesnutt
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Editorial Note
xvii
Introduction
xxiii
ESSAYS AND SPEECHES
Etiquette (1881)
1
12
The Advantages of a Well-Conducted Literary Society (1881)
13
11
The Future of the Negro (1882)
24
9
Self-Made Men (1882)
33
7
Methods of Teaching (1882)
40
14
Things To Be Thankful For (1886)
54
1
Advice to Young Men (1886)
55
2
An Inside View of the Negro Question (1889)
57
11
What Is a White Man? (1889)
68
6
Some Uses and Abuses of Shorthand (1889)
74
4
A Multitude of Counselors (1891)
78
6
Some Requisites of a Law Reporter (1891)
84
4
Resolutions Concerning Recent Southern Outrages (1892)
88
2
Competition (1892)
90
5
Why I Am a Republican (1892)
95
6
Liberty and the Franchise (1899)
101
8
Literature in Its Relation to Life (1899)
109
7
On the Future of His People (1900)
116
2
A Plea for the American Negro (1900)
118
3
The Future American: What the Race Is Likely to Become in the Process of Time (1900)
121
5
The Future American: A Stream of Dark Blood in the Veins of the Southern Whites (1900)
126
5
The Future American: A Complete Race-Amalgamation Likely to Occur (1900)
131
5
Introduction to Temple Course Reading (1900)
136
3
The White and the Black (1901)
139
6
A Visit to Tuskegee (1901)
145
7
A Defamer of His Race (1901)
152
3
Superstitions and Folk-Lore of the South (1901)
155
6
The Negro's Franchise (1901)
161
8
Charles W. Chesnutt's Own View of His New Story, The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
169
1
Obliterating the Color Line (1901)
170
2
Pussy Meow: The Autobiography of a Cat, by S. L. Patteson (1901)
172
1
The Free Colored People of North Carolina (1902)
173
6
The Disfranchisement of the Negro (1903)
179
17
The Race Problem (1904)
196
9
Peonage, or the New Slavery (1904)
205
4
For Roosevelt (1904)
209
2
The Literary Outlook (1905)
211
3
Race Prejudice: Its Causes and Its Cures (1905)
214
24
Age of Problems (1906)
238
14
Rights and Duties (1908)
252
10
The Courts and the Negro (1908)
262
9
Lincoln's Courtships (1909)
271
3
The Right to Jury Service (1910)
274
7
Who and Why Was Samuel Johnson? (1911)
281
18
Abraham Lincoln (1912)
299
3
The Status of the Negro in the United States (1912)
302
6
Address to the Medina Coterie (1913)
308
14
Perry Centennial (1913)
322
9
Race Ideals and Examples (1913)
331
18
Abraham Lincoln: An Appreciation (1913)
349
4
Alexander Dumas (1914)
353
18
The Ideal Nurse (1914)
371
12
Women's Rights (1915)
383
1
A Solution for the Race Problem (1916)
384
18
George Meredith (1916)
402
21
Social Discrimination (1916)
423
3
The Negro in Books (1916)
426
15
Introduction to a Reading from an Unpublished Story (1916)
441
1
The Will of John Randolph (1917)
442
7
Address to Colored Soldiers at Grays Armory (1917)
449
9
Negro Authors (1918)
458
3
The Mission of the Drama (1920)
461
3
Resolutions Concerning the Recent Election (1920)
464
4
The Autobiography of Edward, Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1921)
468
12
Remarks of Charles W. Chesnutt Before Cleveland Chamber of Commerce Committee on Negro Migration and Its Effects (1926)
480
10
The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? (1926)
490
4
Address Before Ohio State Night School (1928)
494
9
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass (1928)
503
7
Remarks of Charles Waddell Chesnutt, of Cleveland, in Accepting the Spingarn Medal at Los Angeles (1928)
510
6
The Negro in Present Day Fiction (1929)
516
14
Advice for Businessmen (1930)
530
5
The Negro in Cleveland (1930)
535
8
Post-Bellum---Pre-Harlem (1931)
543
6
The Writing of a Novel (undated, after 1899)
549
4
Why Do We Live? (undated)
553
1
Joseph C. Price, Orator and Educator: An Appreciation (undated, after 2 August 1923)
554
11
The Term Negro (undated, before 2 June 1928)
565
4
Index
569
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