“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 […]
“Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance?”
IF I were asked the simple, direct question, “Does the negro in America have a fair chance?” it would be easy to answer simply, “No,” and then refer to instances […]
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 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 Heirs of Abraham Lincoln
The Progressive movement which culminated last August in the creation of the Progressive party is no mere sign of temporary political discontent, it is a manifestation of the eternal forces […]
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 […]