Originally published: Mnemosyne Houghton Mifflin, 1901.

Includes bibliographical references (page xlv-xlvii).

The Marrow of Tradition: The Complete Text -- Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background -- Chronology of Chesnutt's Life and Times -- A Note on the Text -- The Marrow of Tradition [1901 Houghton Mifflin edition] -- The Marrow of Tradition: Cultural Contexts -- Caste, Race and Gender After Reconstruction from The Platinum Negro as a Freeman / Philip Bruce -- "The Negro Question in the South" / Tom Watson -- An Imperative Duty / William Dean Howells -- "Atlanta Exposition Speech" from Up from Slavery / Booker T. Washington -- "The Future American" / Charles W. Chesnutt -- "The Conservation of Race" / W. E. B. DuBois -- "Birth Reform, from the Positive, not the Negative Side" / Theodore Roosevelt -- Women and Economics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- "The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Woman" / Fannie Barrier Williams -- "Service by the Educated Negro" / Roscoe Conklin Bruce -- Law and Lawlessness -- Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution -- "The Freedman's Case in Equity" / George Washington Cable -- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): excerpts from brief by Albion Tourgee, majority opinion by Justice Henry Billings Brown, and the dissenting opinion by Justice John Marshall Harlan -- "Suffrage and Eligibility to Office," Article VI, amendment to the North Carolina State Constitution -- Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases / Ida B. Wells -- "Lynched Negro and Wife First Mutilated," Vicksburg (Mississippi) Evening Post February 8, 1904 -- "Victim's Family Begs to See Negro Burned," Atlanta Constitution October 2, 1905 -- "Belleville is Complacent Over Horrible Lynching,: New York Herald June 9, 1903 -- "Respect for Law," Independent / Jane Addams -- "A Race Riot and After," Following the Color Line / Ray Stannard Baker -- A speech before the United States House of Representatives, February 23, 1900 / George H. White -- The Wilmington Riot -- Editorial printed in Literary Digest, 1898 / Alexander Manly -- Speech reported in The Wilmington Star / Rebecca Latimer Fulton -- From the "White Man's Declaration of Independence" (or, Wilmington Declaration of Independence), from Appleton's Cyclopaedia -- Anonymous letter to William McKinley, 13 November 1898 -- Letter to Walter Hines Page, 1898 / Charles Chesnutt -- "An Account of the Race Riot in Wilmington, N.C." / Jane Cronly -- Segregation as Culture: Etiquette, Spectacle, and Fiction -- Wilmington Messenger article, rpt in Raleigh New and Observer, 8 September 1899 -- Photograph of "Old Plantation" Midway booth at the 1896 Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia -- From The Cotton States and International Exposition program -- 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business / Tom Fletcher -- "Old" and "New" Negro photographs juxtaposed, from Frances Benjamin Johnston's The Hampton album -- Literary Memoranda / Charles Chesnutt -- "Po' Sandy" / Charles Chesnutt -- From The Leopard's Spots / Thomas Dixon -- From "A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction" North American Review / Williams Dean Howells.