title: The Negro in the Making of America: Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded
author:  Benjamin Quarles 
description: <b>Benjamin Quarles</b> is Emeritus Professor of History at Morgan State University in Baltimore and is the author of many books on African American history, including <i>Frederick Douglass, The Negro in the American Revolution, Black Abolitionists,</i> and <i>The Negro in the Civil War.</i>
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  # Twentieth Century Negro Literature
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### D. W. Culp
  
  
  This page formatted 2007 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com
  
  * [Dedication.](blit_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [PREFACE.](blit_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [INTRODUCTION. BY PROF. W. H. CROGMAN.](blit_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [THE EDITOR'S BIOGRAPHY, BY WALTER I. LEWIS.](blit_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [TWENTIETH CENTURY NEGRO LITERATURE.](blit_split_5.html#1_1)
  
  
    * [TOPIC 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?
  
  
  * [TOPIC II. WILL IT BE POSSIBLE FOR THE NEGRO TO
  
  
  ATTAIN, IN THIS COUNTRY, UNTO THE AMERICAN TYPE OF CIVILIZATION?
  
  
  * [TOPIC III. HOW CAN THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS NOW
  
  
  EXISTING BETWEEN THE TWO RACES IN THE SOUTH BE STRENGTHENED AND
  
  
  MAINTAINED?
  
  
  * [TOPIC IV. SHOULD THE NEGRO BE GIVEN AN EDUC