On the record
If we continue our attention to the colored children, the case is, of course, much worse.
Said by
W.E.B. Du Bois
Source
gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “If we continue our attention to the colored children, the case is, of course, much worse.”
Editor's note · Context
Du Bois emphasizes the even greater educational challenges faced by Black children compared to their peers.
Share
More from W.E.B. Du Bois
Jan 1, 1903
Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.
Jan 1, 1903
With other black boys the strife was not so fiercely sunny: their youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry, Why…
Jan 1, 1903
The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.
Jan 1, 1903
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.