Primary Sources: Reconstruction Era (After U.S. Civil War)

Atlantic Monthly 87 (1901): 354-365

Serial: The Atlantic Monthly Volume 0083 Issue 495 (January 1899)
Title: A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South [pp. 99-105]
Author: Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt
Collection: Journals: Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
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W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington

Atlantic Monthly 87 (1901): 354-365.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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"n the years immediately following World War I, tens of thousands of southern blacks and returning black soldiers flocked to the nation’s Northern cities looking for good jobs and a measure of respect and security. Many white Americans, fearful of competition for scarce jobs and housing, responded by attacking black citizens in a spate of urban race riots. In urban African-American enclaves, the 1920s were marked by a flowering of cultural expressions and a proliferation of black self-help organizations that accompanied the era of the “New Negro.” Debates raged over the best political and organizational path for black Americans, and the Crisis, the national magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), offered one of the earliest and most powerful endorsements of the “New Negro.” In an editorial immediately following the Chicago race riot of 1919, Crisis editor W. E. B. Du Bois argued in favor of acts of self-defense and armed resistance, despite the editorial’s conciliatory title, "Let Us Reason Together." "

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