1917–1929
“Of the Faith of the Fathers,” from The Souls of Black Folk
It WAS out in the country, far from home, far from my foster home, on a dark Sunday night. The road wandered from our rambling log-house up the stony bed
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It WAS out in the country, far from home, far from my foster home, on a dark Sunday night. The road wandered from our rambling log-house up the stony bed
The world-old phenomenon of the contact of diverse races of men is to have new exemplification during the new century. Indeed, the characteristic of our age is the contact of
“Postscript, by W.E.B. Du Bois. The Crisis (March 1928), pg. 96. https://ia801803.us.archive.org/28/items/sim_crisis_1928-03_35_3/sim_crisis_1928-03_35_3.pdf Dear Sir: I am only a high school student in my Sophomore year, and have not the understanding
I am among the few colored men who have tried conscientiously to bring about understanding and co-operation between American Negroes and the Labor Unions. I have sought to look upon
The Philadelphia Negro, A Social Study [1899] University of Pennsylvania. Google books, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Philadelphia_Negro/w106AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR1&printsec=frontcover Color Prejudice– Incidentally throughout this study the prejudice against the Negro has been again and again mentioned. It
For fifty years we who, pro and con, have discussed the Negro Problem, have been skulking behind a phrase — “Social Equality.” Today President Harding’s speech, like sudden thunder in
W.E.B. Du Bois, “Conservation of the Races,” in The American Negro: His History and Literature, The American Negro Academy Occasional Papers 1–22, ed. William Loren Katz (Arno Press and the New
Sir: By an unprecedented vote you have been called to the most powerful position in the gift of mankind. Of the more than hundred million human beings whose destiny rests
Some good friends of the cause we represent fear agitation. They say: “Do not agitate—do not make a noise; work.” They add, “Agitation is destructive or at best negative—what is
The object of this publication is to set forth those facts and arguments which show the danger of race prejudice, particularly as manifested to—day toward colored people. It takes its