Debra Newman Ham, former Archivist at NARA and the editor of the original Black History Guide. Ham is currently a professor of history at Morgan State University.

Foreword, Debra Newman Ham

Introduction

• My Parents
• Early Childhood
• I am Sent North to School
• My Parents Send Me to Oberlin, Ohio
• I Enter Oberlin College
• Activities During College Course
• I Go to Memphis, Teach Wilberforce and Washington and Go Abroad
• I Study in Germany
• In Europe with Mother and Brother
• I Leave Berlin and Go to Florence
• I Return to the United States
• With Frederick Douglass and Paul Dunbar at the World's Fair
• Buying a Home Under Difficulties
• Learning to Cook and Entertaining Guests
• The Commissioners of the National Capital Appoint Me a Member of the School Board
• The National American Woman Suffrage Association Invites Me to Speak
• Club Work
• On the Lecture Platform
• Notable Lecture Engagements
• Prince Henry of Prussia, Dr. Brooker T. Washington
• In Berlin, Germany
• Distinguished People I Met Abroad
• My Efforts to Succeed as a Writer
• My Children and I
• My Experience as a Clerk in a Government Department
• Efforts in Senate to Prevent Judge Terrell's Confirmation
• The Secretary of War Suspends Order Dismissing Colored Soldiers at My Request
• Harriet Beecher Stowe Centenary and My Sally into Spiritualism
• Trying to Get a Colored Girl into an Academy in the North
• Traveling Under Difficulties
• Political Activities-Charged with Disorderly Conduct
• Work in War Camp Community Service
• Delegate to the International Peace Congress
• Meeting Old Friends and New-Plus a Dose of Race Prejudice Administered by My Countrymen
• A Week-end Visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. [...]-I Meet Other Distinguished People in England
• Employed by Ruth Hanna McCormick to Help in Her Campaign for the United States Senate. Abroad with My Daughter
• A Few Cases of Friction
• Crossing the Color Line
• The Colored Man's Paradise
• Social Activities
• I Address the International Assembly of the World Fellowship of Faiths in London and Meet Haile Selassie
• Carrying On

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