W.E.B. Du Bois: “If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1903

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Du Bois employs a rhetorical question to argue for the equal necessity of higher education for Black people, mirroring that of white society.

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