The Souls of Black Folk

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   Dr. W.E.B. DuBois developed and implemented several approaches to solving what was commonly referred to in the early twentieth century as "the Negro Problem." In addition to aiming to collaborate with Booker T. Washington (founder of Tuskegee Institute) to advance the education of the black race by implementing liberal arts into the curriculum, DuBois was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. DuBois also gave several artistic black collegiates the opportunity to develop their liberal intellect by founding the journal titled The Crisis, which included short stories, poetry, illustrations, and essays of the black elite (eg, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alaine Locke). DuBois also had a "Talented Tenth" philosophy, in which he believed that the educated and elite ten percent of the black population could promote the success of the black race in American by educating the remaining ninety percent of the (black) population.  

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