The Marrow of tradition

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE -- The Marrow of Tradition: The Complete Text 1 -- Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background 3 -- Chronology of Chesnutt's Life and Times 27 -- The Marrow of Tradition [1901 Houghton Mifflin Edition] 41 -- PART TWO -- The Marrow of Tradition: Cultural Contexts 247 -- 1. Caste, Race, and Gender after Reconstruction 249 -- Philip A. Bruce, from The Plantation Negro as a Freeman 255 -- Thomas E. Watson, from The Negro Question in the South 262 -- William Dean Howells, from An Imperative Duty 269 -- Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address 274 -- Charles W. Chesnutt, from The Future American 278 -- W. E. B. Du Bois, from The Conservation of Races 288 -- Theodore Roosevelt, from Birth Reform, from the Positive, Not the Negative, Side 299 -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Women and Economics 304 -- Fannie Barrier Williams, from The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women 313 -- Roscoe Conkling Bruce, from Service by the Educated Negro 322 -- 2. Law and Lawlessness 331 -- Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 338 -- George Washington Cable, from The Freedman's Case in Equity 340 -- Justice Henry Billings Brown and Justice John Marshall Harlan, from Plessy v. Ferguson 353 -- Suffrage and Eligibility to Office, Article VI, the North Carolina State Constitution 362 -- Ida B. Wells, from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases 364 -- Turn-of-the-Century Newspaper Reports on Lynching.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-465).