Written in 1899 by Booker T. Washington, an American educator, orator, and advisor to several United States presidents, The Future of the American Negro outlines Washington's ideas on the history of African-American people and their need for education in order to advance themselves within society. Putting emphasis on the concept of industrial education, a term that encompasses learning the necessary functions of becoming a valuable member of society...

Contents: Sparks from the anvil--Lincoln--A tribute to Edwin L. Drake and to the spot on which he drilled the first oil well--Men of yesterday--Pioneer Park--A nation's greatness and other poems. Local author. Title on cover: Poems.