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| I. | Did the American Negro make, in the nineteenth century, achievements along the lines of wealth, morality, education, etc., commensurate with his opportunities? If so, what achievements did he make? | 17 |
| II. | Will it be possible for the Negro to attain, in this country, unto the American type of civilization? | 42 |
| III. | How can the friendly relations now existing between the two races in the South be strengthened and maintained? | 57 |
| IV. | Should the Negro be given an education different from that given to the white? | 72 |
| V. | Should the ignorant and non-property holding Negro be allowed to vote? | 89 |
| VI. | Is the criminal Negro justly dealt with in the courts of the South? | 92 |
| VII. | To what extent is the Negro pulpit uplifting the race? | 115 |
| VIII. | Is it time for the Negro colleges in the South to be put into the hands of Negro teachers? | 125 |
| IX. | Will the education of the Negro solve the race problem? | 142 |
| X. | What role is the educated Negro woman to play in the uplifting of her race? | 167 |
| XI. | How can the Negroes be induced to rally more to Negro business enterprises and to their professional men? | 186 |
| XII. | What are the causes of the great mortality among the Negroes in the cities of the South and how is that mortality to be lessened? | 199 |
| XIII. | What should be the Negro's attitude in politics? | 224 |
| XIV. | Is the Negro as morally depraved as he is reputed to be? | 236 |
| XV. | Is the young Negro an improvement morally on his father? | 254 |
| XVI. | The Negro as a writer | 270 |
| XVII. | Did the American Negro prove, in the nineteenth century, that he is intellectually equal to the white man? | 287 |
| XVIII. | What progress did the American white man make in the nineteenth century along the line of conceding to the Negro his religious, political and civil rights? | 291 |
| XIX. | The Negro as a laborer | 299 |
| XX. | The Negro as a Christian | 309 |
| XXI. | Does the North afford to the Negro better opportunities of making a living than the South? | 323 |
| XXII. | What is the Negro teacher doing in the matter of uplifting his race? | 330 |
| XXIII. | Is the Negro newspaper an important factor in the elevation of the Negro? | 347 |
| XXIV. | Are other than Baptist and Methodist Churches adapted to the present Negro? | 356 |
| XXV. | The Negro as a business man | 370 |
| XXVI. | The Negro as a farmer | 388 |
| XXVII. | The Negro as an inventor | 399 |
| XXVIII. | What the omen? | 414 |
| XXIX. | Why the Negro race survives | 418 |
| XXX. | The signs of a brighter future for the American Negro | 427 |
| XXXI. | Negro criminality | 434 |
| XXXII. | The American Negro's opportunities in Africa | 442 |
| XXXIII. | The Negro and education | 445 |
| XXXIV. | A Negro in it | 447 |
| XXXV. | The Negro's adversities help him | 449 |
| XXXVI. | The American Negro and his possibilities | 454 |
| XXXVII. | Important lessons from the awful tragedy | 464 |
| XXXVIII. | How to help the Negro to help himself | 468 |
