In the professions, college men are slowly but surely leavening the Negro church, are healing and preventing the devastations of disease, and beginning to furnish legal protection for the liberty and property of the toiling masses.
Du Bois outlines the critical contributions of college-educated Black men in the church, medicine, and law for the advancement of their people.
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…
One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.
Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!