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 reflections and recommendations of the corps of compilers placed at your service, giving you full authority to review the result of their labors, your obligation to the publishers ceased.

The transaction between us, a purely business one, had in every particular upon your part been complied with.  From thenceforward, as far as you were obligated to the publishers, this History; what it is; what it stands for; how it will be rated by the reading masses—­should be, and concretely, by your own people you so worthily represent and are today their most fearless and eloquent champion, is, as far as any obligation you may have been under to us, not required of you to say.

Nevertheless, regardless of past business relations now at an end, have you not an opinion directly of the finished work?  A word to say; the growth of which you have marked from its first instalment to its last?

-The Publishers-

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