Arthur A. Schomburg’s “Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges, etc.” was read before the teachers’ summer class at Cheney Institute in July 1913. At the time, Schomburg was the secretary of the Negro Society for Historical Research in Yonkers, New York. This address argues the necessity and obligation that academic institutions had to create job opportunities for Black scholars and introduce a curriculum that did not limit the Black experience to the footnotes of textbooks.