“I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The Talented Tenth http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=174, published as the second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans (New York: James Pott and Company, 1903)

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American sociologist, historian, activist and writer 1868–1963

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