Jan 1, 1903
That one wise method of doing this lies in the closer knitting of the Negro to the great industrial possibilities of the South is a great truth.
W.E.B. Du Bois
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. He completed graduate work at Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. He was a professor at Atlanta University and over the course of his life wrote many books and articles. He spent the last years of his life in Ghana and died in Accra on August 27, 1963.
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Jan 1, 1903
The foundations of knowledge in this race, as in others, must be sunk deep in the college and university if we would build a solid, permanent structure.
Jan 1, 1903
Is there not, with such a group and in such a crisis, infinitely more danger to be apprehended from half-trained minds and shallow thinking than from over-education and over-refinement?
Jan 1, 1903
Surely we have wit enough to found a Negro college so manned and equipped as to steer successfully between the dilettante and the fool.
Jan 1, 1903
We shall hardly induce black men to believe that if their stomachs be full, it matters little about their brains.
Jan 1, 1903
They already dimly perceive that the paths of peace winding between honest toil and dignified manhood call for the guidance of skilled thinkers, the loving, reverent comradeship between the black lowly and the black men emancipated by…
Jan 1, 1903
The function of the Negro college, then, is clear: it must maintain the standards of popular education, it must seek the social regeneration of the Negro, and it must help in the solution of problems of race contact and cooperation.
Jan 1, 1903
Such souls aforetime have inspired and guided worlds, and if we be not wholly bewitched by our Rhinegold, they shall again.
Jan 1, 1903
Herein the longing of black men must have respect: the rich and bitter depth of their experience, the unknown treasures of their inner life, the strange rendings of nature they have seen, may give the world new points of view and make…
Jan 1, 1903
And to themselves in these the days that try their souls, the chance to soar in the dim blue air above the smoke is to their finer spirits boon and guerdon for what they lose on earth by being black.
Jan 1, 1903
So flagrant became the political scandals that reputable men began to leave politics alone, and politics consequently became disreputable.
Jan 1, 1903
Here and there are tales of projects for money-getting, born in the swift days of Reconstruction,—“improvement” companies, wine companies, mills and factories; most failed, and the Jew fell heir.