The Conservation of Races
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 […]
An Open Letter to Warren Gamaliel Harding
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 […]
Agitation
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 Crisis
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 […]
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 […]
Of the Training of Black Men
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 […]
Of Booker T. Washington and Others: The Souls of Black Folk
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. […]
The Forethought
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 […]
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
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
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 […]