fish Workers in the Vineyard.

Mitigated the Horrors of War--At the Front, Behind the Lines, at
Home--Circle for Negro War Relief--Addressed and Praised by Roosevelt--A
Notable Gathering--Colored Y.M.C.A. Work--Unsullied Record of
Achievement--How the "Y" Conducted Business--Secretaries all
Specialists--Negro Women in "Y" Work--Valor of a Non-combatant

Chapter XXVII. Negro in Army Personnel.

His Mechanical Ability Required--Skilled at Special Trades--Victory
Depends upon Technical Workers--Vast Range of Occupation--Negro Makes
Good Showing--Percentages of White and Colored--Figures for General
Service

Chapter XXVIII. The Knockout Blow.

Woodrow Wilson, an Estimate--His Place in History--Last of Great
Trio--Washington, Lincoln, Wilson--Upholds Decency, Humanity,
Liberty--Recapitulation of Year 1918--Closing Incidents of War

Chapter XXIX. Homecoming Heroes. New York Greets Her Own--Ecstatic Day
for Old 15th--Whites and Blacks do Honors--A Monster Demonstration--Many
Dignitaries Review Troops--Parade of Martial Pomp--Cheers, Music,
Flowers and Feasting--"Hayward's Scrapping Babies"--Officers Share
Glory--Then Came Henry Johnson--Similar Scenes Elsewhere

Chapter XXX. Reconstruction and the Negro. By Julius Rosenwald,
President Sears, Roebuck & Co, and Trustee of Tuskegee Institute--A Plea
for Industrial Opportunity for the Negro--Tribute to Negro as Soldier
and Civilian--Duty of Whites Pointed Out--Business Leader and
Philanthropist Sounds Keynote

Chapter XXXI. The Other Fellow's Burden. An Emancipation Day Appeal for
Justice--By W. Allison Sweeney

Chapter XXXII. An Interpolation. Held--By Distinguished Thinkers and
Writers, That the Negro Soldier Should be Given a Chance for Promotion
as Well as a Chance to Die. Why--White Officers over Negro Soldiers?

Chapter XXXIII. The New Negro and the New America. The Old Order
Changeth, yielding place to new. Through the Arbitrament of war, behold
a new and better America! a new and girded negro! "The Watches of the
night have PASSED!" "The Watches Of the day BEGIN!"

FOREWORD

He was a red headed messenger boy and he handed me a letter in a NILE
GREEN ENVELOPE, and this is what I read:

Dear Mr. Sweeney:

When on the 25th of March the last instalment of the MSS of the "History
of the American Negro in the Great World War" was returned to us from
your hands, bearing the stamp of your approval as to its historic
accuracy; the wisdom and fairness of the reflec