This little book is made up of articles contributed several years ago
to radical newspapers and magazines like The Call, The Truth-Seeker,
Zukunft, and The International Socialist Review. They are re-published
in this form, partly to preserve a portion of the author's early work,
but mainly because they help to throw into strong relief the present
situation of the Negro in present day America, and to show how that
situation re-acts upon the mind of the Negro. That is the great need
of the Negro at this time.
Some time in the near future I hope to write a little book on the New
Negro which will set forth the aims and ideals of the new Manhood
Movement among American Negroes rich has grown out of the
international crusade "for democracy—for the right of those who submit
to authority to have A VOICE in their own government"— as President
Wilson so sincerely puts it.
Because I wish this little book to have as large a circulation as
possible among Negroes and white people, I have preferred publication
at a popular price to the doubtful advantage of having a prominent
publisher's name at the foot of the title-page. The present edition
consists of five thousand copies. When it is sold off a second edition
will be issued.
HUBERT H. HARRISON New York, August, 1917.