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“Whatever Happened to the College-Bred Negro?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

V.P. Franklin
V.P. Franklin*
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Yale University
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , Fall 1984 , pp. 411 - 418
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Copyright © 1984 by History of Education Society 

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Notes

1. Du Bois, W.E.B., “The Talented Tenth” in The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative Negroes of Today (New York, 1903), p. 33.Google Scholar

2. For estimations of black college enrollments at the turn of the century, see Du Bois, W.E.B. (ed.), The College-Bred Negro: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University (Atlanta, 1900), pp. 65–66; passim.Google Scholar

3. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, The Social and Economic Status of the Black Population in the United States: An Historical View, 1790–1978 (Washington, D.C., 1979), pp. 87–89.Google Scholar

4. For samples of New Negro thought, see The New Negro, edited by Locke, Alain (1925; reprinted New York, 1977); and The New Negro Renaissance: An Anthology , edited and introductions by Peplow, Michael W. and Davis, Arthur P. (New York, 1975).Google Scholar

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10. Du Bois, W.E.B., “Education and Work (1930),” in The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906–1960, edited by Aptheker, Herbert, (New York, 1973), p. 67.Google Scholar

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