April 1909 (Vol 16, No. 4)
Source: James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Table of Contents
Masonic Hall, at Saint Louis (Frontispiece)
The Month (The Negro and the South – Bearding the Lions – The Brownsville Finale)
A Personal Review of Roosevelt, John C. Dancy
The Liberian Crisis, Walter F. Walker
The Race’s Press Must Point the Way, J. M. Henderson
Consolation (Poem), Frank Myrtle
Negro Education, J. Silas Harris
Alabama Penny Savings Bank
Jim Crow Car (Poem) (rpt. The American Magazine), Rosalie M. Jonas
Negro Taxes in Virginia , George St. Julian Stephens
Wanted: A Negro Hospital in New York City, Dr. E. Elliott Rawlins
Palestine (Poem) (rpt. The Independent), Katherine Lee Bates
Sky Pilots of Our Colored Troops
Affairs at Washington, Ralph W. Tyler
The Cheyney Summer School
Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington
Virtue (Poem), Churchill
Heart of the Race Problem, Quincy Ewing
Editorial