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.
Du Bois clearly defines the essential roles of the Black college: upholding educational standards, fostering social uplift for Black people, and contributing to solutions for racial interaction and collaboration.
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