The education of Booker T. Washington : American democracy and the idea of race relations / Michael Rudolph West.

"The great and intricate problem." Democracy, the Negro problem, and the idea of race relations
"Negroes whose habits you know." The boy, "Booker," progress, and "racial feeling"
"They will pull against you the load downward." The freedpeople's failure and Booker Washington's rescue
"Gathered from miscellaneous sources." Democratic possibilities and other kinds of "racial feelings"
"Prepared for the exercise of these privileges." A new Negro and the end of democracy.