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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 377 -- Vicksburg Evening Post, Lynched Negro and Wife First Mutilated 378 -- Atlanta Constitution, Victim's Family Begs to See Negro Burned 381 -- New York Herald, Negro Tortured by Illinois Mob 382 -- Jane Addams, from Respect for Law 383 -- Ray Stannard Baker, from A Race Riot, and After 385 -- George H. White, from Speech before the U.S. House of Representatives 394 -- 3. The Wilmington Riot 398 -- Alexander Manly, Editorial 405 -- Rebecca Latimer Felton, Letter to the Atlanta Constitution 409 -- Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia, from White Man's Declaration of Independence 411 -- Letter to William McKinley 414 -- Jane Murphy Cronly, from An Account of the Race Riot in Wilmington, N.C. 417 -- 4. Segregation as Culture: Etiquette, Spectacle, and Fiction 422 -- Raleigh News and Observer, Is a Race Clash Unavoidable? 429 -- Walter G. Cooper, from The Cotton States and International -- Exposition Program 432 -- Tom Fletcher, from 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business 435 -- Frances Benjamin Johnston, from The Hampton Album 441 -- Charles Chesnutt, Literary Memoranda 443 -- Charles Chesnutt, Po' Sandy 444 -- William Dean Howells, from A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction 454. |
