“The Fruits of Industrial Training”
The political, educational, social and economic evolution through which the South passed during, say, the first fifteen or twenty years after the close of the Civil War, furnished one of […]
The State
CHAPTER 1. THE PROBABLE ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT. 1. Nature of the Question.—The probable origin of government is a question of fact, to be settled, not by conjecture, but by history. […]
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Please be aware that this historical document contains offensive language and ideas.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 […]
National Life and Character
In National Life and Character; a Forecast, Mr. Charles H. Pearson, late fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and sometime Minister of Education in Victoria, has produced one of the most […]
The Tariff History of the United States (Part II)
With this amendment, the bill was finally passed by the Senate, the vote being 26 to 21. The Southern Senators (except two from Kentucky, and one each from Tennessee and […]
The Tariff History of the United States (Part I)
CHAPTER II THE EARLY PROTECTIVE MOVEMENT AND THE TARIFF OF 1828 In the present essay we shall consider, not so much the economic effect of the tariff, as the character […]
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 […]
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 Educational Outlook in the South
Fourteen years ago it is said that Northern teachers, in the South for the purpose of teaching in colored schools, were frightened away by the whites from the town of […]