Forword and Introduction

The Boy and the Bayonet

The Beginnings of a Mississippi School

Up From Slavery: The Struggle for an Education

Booker T. Washington: A Student's Memory of him

Anna-Margaret

Charity

My First School

Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes

The Land of Laughter

The Web of Circumstance

Is the Game Worth the Candle?

O Black and Unknown Bards

The Greatest Menace of the South

The Enchanted Shell

Behind a Georgia Mule

Hayti and Toussant L'Ouverture

His Motto

The Months

The Colored Cadet at West Point