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 | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) 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 | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) exposes how democracy masks racial and class segregation in education, mocking calls for separate schools. |
| 1911 (Mar) | The Blair Bill | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges revival of the Blair Bill, arguing federal education aid is essential for democracy and racial justice. |
| 1911 (Jun) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) urges national education reform, exposing how racial inequality and weak schools betray American democracy. |
| 1911 (Jun) | The Cost of Education | W.E.B. Du Bois 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 | W.E.B. Du Bois presents a biting satirical dialogue in The Crisis (Jan 1912) examining ‘solutions’ to the Negro problem, contrasting reform talk with violence. |
| 1913 (Mar) | An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson | In 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges Woodrow Wilson to defend Black civil rights—voting, education, labor access—and end lynching to save democracy. |
| 1915 (Jun) | An Open Letter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) charges Southern race policy with lynching, disenfranchisement, schooling and labor exclusion and demands organized justice. |
| 1917 (Jan) | Schools | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) defends Black secondary and higher schools, denouncing philanthropic gatekeeping that threatens Black education. |
| 1919 (May) | Returning Soldiers | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) returns from war to demand racial justice, condemning lynching, disenfranchisement, and economic theft. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Mount Hermon | In 1921 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns racial inequality in education, exposing philanthropy’s excuses and stark funding gaps for Black schools. |
| 1927 (Apr) | The Higher Friction | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) argues racial friction moves up to higher stakes—voting, education, lynching, housing—measuring uneven Black progress. |
| 1928 (Jan) | Exclusion | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), reveals how racial exclusion in higher learning mocks democracy and Christianity, and exposes the harm of exclusion. |
| 1930 (Feb) | Smuts | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) exposes Jan Smuts’ white-supremacist vision, arguing it denies Black education, labor, and democratic rights. |
| 1931 (Apr) | Causes of Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1931) links lynching to ignorance, economic exploitation, political exclusion, religious intolerance, and sexual prejudice. |
| 1932 (Feb) | Lynchings | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) exposes lynching as racial caste violence that thrives on denied education, economic oppression, and lack of human rights. |
| 1932 (Sep) | Employment | In The Crisis (1932), W.E.B. Du Bois argues segregated schools and narrow college curricula block Black graduates’ employment and hinder race and democracy. |
| 1933 (Dec) | Too Rich to be a Nigger | In 1933 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis documents how white backlash to Black education and prosperity culminated in lynching, exposing racial terror. |
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