TWENTIETH CENTURY NEGRO LITERATURE.




TOPIC I.

DID THE AMERICAN NEGRO MAKE, IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, ACHIEVEMENTS
ALONG THE LINES OF WEALTH, MORALITY, EDUCATION, ETC., COMMENSURATE
WITH HIS OPPORTUNITIES? IF SO, WHAT ACHIEVEMENTS DID HE MAKE?

BY MARY B. TALBERT.

[Illustration: Mrs. Mary B. Talbert.]

MRS. MARY B. TALBERT.

Mary Burnett Talbert was born at Oberlin, Ohio, in 1866, her
father's family having gone there from Chapel Hill, N. C.
She is descended on her maternal side from Richard Nichols,
who compelled Peter Stuyvesant to surrender New Amsterdam
and who for a short while was Governor of the State of New
York.

She graduated at the early age of sixteen from the Oberlin
High School, and through the generosity of Ex-President
James H. Fairchild was enabled to attend Oberlin College.

When applying for admission to the class in trigonometry,