Returning Soldiers
We are returning from war! THE CRISIS and tens of thousands of black men were drafted into a great struggle.1 For bleeding France and what she means and has meant […]
Close Ranks
W. E. B. Du Bois, “Close Ranks,” The Crisis, 16 (July 1918), 111. Available at https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:511336/. This is the crisis of the world. For all the long years to come […]
The Souls of Black Folk: “Afterthought”
Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world-wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought […]
Of the Sorrow Songs
Source: Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. “Of the Sorrow Songs,” in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 250-264. United States: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1903. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk/7psUAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. I […]
“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 […]
“Of the Sons of Master and Man,” from The Souls of Black Folk
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 […]
The Name “Negro”
“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 […]
The Black Man and the Unions
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
Please be aware that this historical document contains offensive language and ideas. Source: 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 […]
President Harding and Social Equality
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 […]