The Human Way. Addresses on Race Problems at the Southern Sociological Congress Atlanta, 1913.

“Let us speak out with plainness and honest conviction, and at the same time with good feeling and sympathy…”

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First edition and quite scarce. These 17 talks were delivered at the second Southern Sociological Congress in 1913. Features Dr. Charles V. Roman’s address, “Racial Self-Respect and Racial Antagonism.” Roman (1864–1934), one of the few African Americans to participate in the Congress, was a physician, professor at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, and served as president of the National Medical Association (1904–05). He was known for his advocacy of racial solidarity and self-improvement.

The volume also includes numerous addresses on the economic, educational, medical, and legal challenges confronting African Americans, including: “How to Enlist the Welfare Agencies of the South for Improvement of Conditions Among the Negroes”; “The Negro Working Out His Own Salvation,” on shifting African American populations; “The Prevalence of Contagious or Infectious Diseases Among the Negroes, and the Necessity of Preventive Measures”; “The Need and Value of Industrial Education for Negroes”; “The Work of the Jeanes and Slater Funds,” on industrial education; “Open Church Work for the Negro,” on the Presbyterian Colored Missions in Louisville, Kentucky; and “The White Man’s Task in the Uplift of the Negro.”

Price: $150.00