1. A Negro culture and American manhood.
2. Social reform through social science.
3. The overture to protest: beginnings of the Du Bois-Washington contoversy.
4. The radicals fail to effect a rapprochement.
5. Niagara Movement: the protest.
6. The N.A.A.C.P. is founded: white liberals and the protest.
7. The Crisis magazine grows: more N.A.A.C.P. crises develop.
8. Du Bois as accommodationist: co-operation with erstwhile enemies.
9. The Pan-African movement: Negroes of the world unite!.
10. The new Negro and the old Du Bois.
12. The recent years: an epilogue. 13. Conclusions.