Educational inequality
Du Bois championed liberal arts education and documented systematic inequality in Southern schools.
Educational inequality (18 articles)
Du Bois championed liberal arts education and documented systematic inequality in Southern schools.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Jan) | The High School | Recounts Black St. Louis’s fight for a new colored high school—race, civic action, and self-help vs white opposition. |
| 1911 (Feb) | Rampant Democracy | Exposes how democracy masks racial and class segregation in education, mocking calls for separate schools. |
| 1911 (Mar) | The Blair Bill | Urges revival of the Blair Bill, arguing federal education aid is essential for democracy and racial justice. |
| 1911 (Apr) | Mr. Taft | Condemns Taft’’s race policies, rejecting Southern guardianship over Black education, voting rights and justice. |
| 1911 (Jun) | Education | Urges national education reform, exposing how racial inequality and weak schools betray American democracy. |
| 1911 (Jun) | The Cost of Education | Shows how Black taxpayers subsidize white schooling and underfunded colored schools, exposing race and education injustice in The Crisis (1911). |
| 1912 (Jan) | A Mild Suggestion | Presents a biting satirical dialogue in The Crisis (Jan 1912) examining ‘solutions’ to the Negro problem, contrasting reform talk with violence. |
| 1912 (Mar) | Virginia Christian | Shows how Virginia’s white-supremacist order denies education, produces poverty, and murders Virginia Christian. |
| 1913 (Mar) | An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson | Urges Woodrow Wilson to defend Black civil rights—voting, education, labor access—and end lynching to save democracy. |
| 1913 (Apr) | The Church and the Negro | Faults the church for promoting racial injustice, exposing Christian hypocrisy and urging labor, education, moral reform. |
| 1914 (Jan) | College Education | Urges Black families to pursue rigorous college education as the path to racial freedom and dignified labor. |
| 1915 (Jan) | Education | Condemns vocational limits on Black education as deliberate attack on race, democracy, and full intellectual development. |
| 1915 (Jun) | An Open Letter | Storey, Moorfield in The Crisis (1915) argues for justice, denouncing Southern disfranchisement and school neglect of Black Americans. |
| 1916 (Mar) | The Negro Public School | Attacks racialized public education, arguing vocational training enforces caste and undermines democracy. |
| 1916 (Apr) | Migration | Urges Black southerners to migrate North to escape lynching, gain education and labor opportunities. |
| 1916 (May) | Public Schools | Charges Southern public schools with shaping Black servants, undermining education, democracy, and racial equality. |
| 1917 (Jan) | Schools | Defends Black secondary and higher schools, denouncing philanthropic gatekeeping that threatens Black education. |
| 1917 (May) | Loyalty | Rebukes Southern claims of Black disloyalty, defending Black patriotism, migration, and claims to democracy. |
| 1919 (Apr) | Shillady and Texas | Castigates Texas for lynching, disenfranchisement, and racial violence that deny Blacks land, education, and democracy |
| 1919 (May) | Returning Soldiers | Returns from war to demand racial justice, condemning lynching, disenfranchisement, and economic theft. |
| 1920 (Feb) | Crime | Argues racial injustice, poverty, and lack of education foster Black crime—and condemns collective punishment. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Mount Hermon | Condemns racial inequality in education, exposing philanthropy’s excuses and stark funding gaps for Black schools. |
| 1921 (Jun) | The Rising Truth | Exposes southern racial terror and white hypocrisy and insists education and the ballot are crucial for democracy. |
| 1921 (Dec) | President Harding and Social Equality | Condemns Harding’s attack on social equality, defends racial equality, education and democracy; warns against segregation. |
| 1927 (Apr) | The Higher Friction | Argues racial friction moves up to higher stakes—voting, education, lynching, housing—measuring uneven Black progress. |
| 1927 (Dec) | The Durham Conference | Calls for a Durham conference to take stock of labor, education, voting rights and Black community life. |
| 1928 (Jan) | Exclusion | Reveals how racial exclusion in higher learning mocks democracy and Christianity, and exposes the harm of exclusion. |
| 1928 (Mar) | Black and White Workers | Shows Black and white workers share a common struggle for democracy and labor rights, yet prejudice and bosses block solidarity. |
| 1928 (Mar) | Robert E. Lee | Argues in The Crisis (1928) that commemorating Robert E. Lee masks his role in upholding slavery, urging moral honesty about race and democracy. |
| 1930 (Feb) | Smuts | Exposes Jan Smuts’ white-supremacist vision, arguing it denies Black education, labor, and democratic rights. |
| 1931 (Apr) | Causes of Lynching | Links lynching to ignorance, economic exploitation, political exclusion, religious intolerance, and sexual prejudice. |
| 1932 (Feb) | Lynchings | Exposes lynching as racial caste violence that thrives on denied education, economic oppression, and lack of human rights. |
| 1932 (Sep) | Employment | Argues segregated schools and narrow college curricula block Black graduates’ employment and hinder race and democracy. |
| 1933 (Dec) | Too Rich to be a Nigger | Documents how white backlash to Black education and prosperity culminated in lynching, exposing racial terror. |
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