1917–1929
Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson
Sir: On the occasion of your inauguration as President of the United States, The Crisis took the liberty of addressing to you an open letter. The Crisis spoke for no
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Sir: On the occasion of your inauguration as President of the United States, The Crisis took the liberty of addressing to you an open letter. The Crisis spoke for no
From the shimmering swirl of waters where many, many thoughts ago the slave-ship first saw the square tower of Jamestown, have flowed down to our day three streams of thinking: one
Source: Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. “Of Booker T. Washington and Others,” in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 41-59. United States: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1903. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk/7psUAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0.
Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it, All, nevertheless,
Abraham Lincoln was a Southern poor white, of illegitimate birth, poorly educated and unusually ugly, awkward, ill-dressed. He liked smutty stories and was a politician down to his toes. Aristocrats—Jeff
We love to think of the Great as flawless. We yearn in our imperfection toward Perfection–sinful, we envisage Righteousness. As a result of this, no sooner does a great man
The men of the Niagara Movement coming from the toil of the year’s hard work and pausing a moment from the earning of their daily bread turn toward the nation
Du Bois argued racial inequality stemmed from discrimination, not biology, advocating higher education and elite leadership alongside vocational training for Black advancement.
Du Bois, W.E.B.. “The Evolution of Negro Leadership.” The Dial 31 (July 1901): 53-55. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pst.000020201142 In every generation of our national life, from Phillis Wheatley to Booker Washington, the Negro