White, Walter F.: The Paradox of Color; born Atlanta, Georgia; educated at public schools and Atlanta University, A.B., 1916; has lived in New York since 1918 as Assistant Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Has travelled extensively as special investigator for this Association, making reports on numerous lynchings, race riots and other social studies. Contributor to the Nation, Century, Forum, Freeman, Survey, Liberator, The Outlook, New Republic, The Crisis, Bookman. Author: Fire in the Flint, a novel, Knopf, 1925, and Flight, Knopf, 1926.
McDougald, Elsie J.: The Task of Negro Womanhood; born and educated in New York City, varied experience as teacher, social investigator and vocational guidance expert, the New York Urban League, the Manhattan Trade School, the Henry Street Settlement, the New York branch United States Department of Labor, the New York School system, and now vice-principal of Public School 89. Supervisor of the Women's Trade Union League and Y. W. C. A. Survey, published 1919 as A New Day for the Colored Woman Worker. Contributor of articles on welfare and social service work to educational journals, The Crisis, Opportunity, and Survey Graphic.
Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt: Worlds of Color; born at Great Barrington, Mass., 1868; educated at Fisk University, A.B., 1888, Harvard University, 1893, A.B. University of Berlin, graduate study in History and Sociology, Ph.D. (Harvard), 1895; professor of Economics and History at Atlanta University, 1896–1910. Editor, The Atlanta Studies, till 1911; since 1910 Director of Publicity, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Editor of The Crisis; author and publicist; founder of the Pan-African Congresses. Author: The Suppression of the Slave Trade (Harvard Historical Studies, Vol. I), The Philadelphia Negro, The Souls of Black Folk, John Brown, a Biography, The Quest of the Silver Fleece, Star of Ethiopia, a Pageant, 1914; Darkwater, 1920; The Negro, 1915; The Gift of Black Folk, 1924.
Johnson, Helene: The Road; born and educated in Boston, English High School, Boston Normal.
NOTES TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
The art lay-out of The New Negro, including cover design, decorative features and illustrations, represent the work of Winold Reiss, who has painstakingly collaborated in the project to give a graphic interpretation of Negro life, freshly conceived after its own patterns. Concretely in his portrait sketches, abstractly in his symbolic designs, he has aimed to portray the soul and spirit of a people. By the simple but rare process of not forcing an alien idiom upon nature, or a foreign convention upon a racial tradition, he has succeeded in revealing some of the rich and promising resources of Negro types, which await only upon serious artistic recognition to become both for the Negro artist and American art at large, one of the rich sources of novel material both for decorative and representative art.
Winold Reiss, whose studio is now in New York, is son of Fritz Reiss, the Bavarian landscape painter, pupil of Franz von Stuck, of Munich, and has become a master delineator of folk types and folk character by wide experience and definite specialization. With ever-ripening skill, he has studied and drawn the folk types of Sweden, Holland, of the Black Forest, and his own native Tyrol, and in America, the Black Foot Indians, the Pueblo people, the Mexicans, and now, the American Negro. His art owes its peculiar success as much to the philosophy of his approach as to his technical skill. He is a folk-lorist of the
