Norman Barton Wood

alt=Rev. Norman Barton Wood (left) and Rev. Harry Knight from the book, The White Side Of A Black Subject Rev. Norman Barton Wood (left) and Rev. Harry Knight from the book, The White Side Of A Black Subject (1897)

Norman Barton Wood (1857–1933) also known as N. B. Wood, was an American author, lecturer, and Baptist minister. He was White, and wrote books about African Americans He attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and studied under Rev. William Heth Whitsitt.

Career Wood was a minister in the Baptist church. He served as pastor at the Claim Street Baptist Church in Aurora, Illinois. In 1898, he served as the chairman of the Temperance League in Aurora, Illinois.

He co-authored the book about the Black struggle in the early 20th-century with Booker T. Washington and Fannie Barrier Williams, A New Negro for a New Century: An Accurate and Up-to-Date Record of the Upward Struggles of the Negro Race (1900). It contains stories about Black history, journalism, slave narratives, biographical sketches, and stories from Black soldiers who fought in U.S. wars. The book may have been written in order to refute claims made by President Theodore Roosevelt in Scribner's Magazine in 1899 about "racial fitness"