Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 4A

24. Albert Bushnell Hart, “Conditions of the Southern Problem,” Independent (March 23, 1905): 644-49.

Strong criticism of the South by a history professor at Harvard University, especially in regard to the treatment of African Americans by white Southerners. This article provoked a vigorous defense of Southern institutions in an editorial that appeared later that year in Tom Watson’s Magazine (see no. 1 in this volume [4]).