Carter Godwin Woodson

Raises questions that readers were trying to answer in 1933 and are still trying to answer today. Explores the impact of slavery on the Black psyche and raises questions about our educational system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and training, and which of these African Americans are receiving. Provides solutions to these challenges, but these require more study, discipline, and an Afrocentric worldview.

"A simple biography for early readers about Carter G. Woodson's life"--

2010 Reprint of 1925 Edition. This book is exactly what its title purports it to be. It contains orations from about fifty different black-American orators. A brief sketch of each orator appears along with his oration. The documentary source from which the oration was obtained is pointed out. The occasion of the delivery is given. The speakers represent practically every generation in American history. Woodson provides the material for a study in the development of the Black-American in his use of English. The orations also present a unique source for studying the history of Black-Americans. It is also well indexed and has become a standard publication.

This book is a by-product of the three-year survey of the social and economic conditions of the Negroes of the United States since the civil War, a task undertaken by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1926.

This book is an effort to adapt to the capacity of high school students the salient facts of the history of the Negro in the United States.

Brief biographies of native African heroes and heroines with emphasis on those from south of the Sahara.