"The Talented Tenth"
Nonfiction work
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
Date: 1903
Source: Du Bois, W.E.B. "The Talented Tenth." In The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of Today. New York: J. Pott, 1903, 33–34, 45–48, 51–55, 73–75. Available online at http://douglassarchives.org/dubo_b05.htm; website home page: http://douglassarchives.org (accessed April 5, 2003).
About the Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963), the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, taught at Atlanta University, Wilberforce, and the University of Pennsylvania. He helped found the NAACP and was editor of the organization's magazine, Crisis, from 1910 to 1934. Du Bois was an influential black leader and educator, and the author of many books and articles.
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