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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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The Negro Problem

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Paul Laurence Dunbar·1872–1906·modernist literature
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HENEGRO PROBLEMthumb|center CONTENTS* I Industrial Education for the Negro by Booker T. Washington* II The Talented Tenth by W.E. Burghardt DuBois* III The Disfranchisement of the Negro by Charles W. Chesnutt* IV The Negro and the Law by Wilford H. Smith* V The Characteristics of the Negro People by H.T. Kealing* VI Representative American Negroes by Paul Laurence Dunbar* VII The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day by T. Thomas Fortune
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