"Studying the American Negro Problem"

Viewing historical documents often alters, or at least personalizes, my understanding of history. Who knew Civil War soldiers were so literate? …that revolutionary soldiers drank their way through the war? …or that the Emancipation Proclamation was more symbol than substance? One of my lenten activities is to read more of the NYT's documentation on the Civil War.

Here are some documents produced for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris by sociology students at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta) under the direction of W. E. B. Dubois. Be sure to click on the link in the beginning of the article on "on how and why they were created".