The Mis-Education of a Negro: Chapter 1-5 Outline

1. The Seat of the Trouble In chapter one Carter G. Woodson says that educated Negros have contempt for their uneducated brethren because they are taught, in Black schools as well as white, to honor the Greek, Hebrew, and other white groups and at the same time to despise the African. Once educated, Woodson questions the role to be played be these Negros. He says that their opportunity is limited. To earn a living many come …

…not find. "If the highly educated Negro would forget most of the untried theories taught him in school, if he could see through the propaganda which has been instilled into his mind under the pretext of education, if he would fall in love with his own people and begin to sacrifice for their uplift -- if the highly educated Negro would do these things, he could solve some of the problems now confronting the race."