Du Bois on Reform: Periodical-based Leadership for African Americans

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Brian Johnson
Rowman Altamira, 2005 - Social Science - 269 pages
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois' 'reform' writings--with the intention of reforming immoral and unethical behavior--appeared in periodicals and were directed toward or written on behalf of the African American community. Du Bois, a Harvard-trained sociologist, offered a stark alternative to the anti-intellectual dogma contained in reform messages by black church leadership. Believing that African Americans needed a firm historical and sociological grasp of a distinct phenomenon that church leaders could not offer, Du Bois published in numerous Black, progressive, liberal, college, and religious periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Independent Weekly, Outlook, Voice of the Negro, The New York Post, and The Crisis. Now for the first time, Du Bois' reform writings--spanning over fifty years--have been gathered into one volume. Each section is edited and introduced by Brian Johnson and they demonstrate Du Bois' contribution to advancing the social and moral dimensions of the African American community.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
3
Great Barrington Notes April 14 1883
6
Great Barrington Notes May 5 1883
7
Great Barrington Briefs September 29 1883
8
Berkshire Hills May 17 1884
9
Great Barrington Items October 18 1884
10
WRITINGS APPEARING IN VARIOUS PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL COLLEGE RELIGIOUS AND NEGRO PERIODICALS 18971910
11
INTRODUCTION
13
The Ostrich
208
The Immediate Program of the American Negro
209
Discipline
212
Hampton
213
The Common School
216
Philanthropy
217
SelfHelp
218
The Slaughter of the Innocents
219

A Program of Social Reform
19
Strivings of the Negro People
20
A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South
25
The Negro and Crime
32
The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind
35
Religion of the American Negro
46
The Freedmens Bureau
54
The Negro as He Really Is
68
The Savings of Black Georgia
80
The Spawn of Slavery The ConvictLease System in the South
84
Of the Training of Black Men
91
Hopeful Signs for the Negro
102
Possibilities of the Negro The Advance Guard of the Race
106
The Problem of Work
114
The Training of Negroes for Social Power
126
The Development of a People
134
The Negro Problem from the Negro Point of View The Parting of the Ways
148
To Solve the Negro Problem
151
What Intellectual Training Is Doing for the Negro
152
The Negro Ideals of Life
156
The Future of the Negro Race in America
160
St Francis of Assisi
171
The Negro in the Large Cities
181
Georgia Negroes and Their Fifty Millions of Savings
184
Negro Property
190
PERIODICAL WRITINGS APPEARING IN CRISIS MAGAZINE A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES 19101934
193
INTRODUCTION
195
Business and Philanthropy
201
Education
203
Education
204
The Black Mother
207
Reconstruction
220
Cooperation
221
Crime
222
Two Methods
224
Thrift
225
The Drive
226
Negro Art
227
Marriage
229
Birth
230
Childhood
231
Education
232
The Negro and the American Stage
233
Foreign Languages
234
Crisis Children
235
Boys and Girls
236
The City Child
238
The Negros Industrial Plight
240
Christmas Festivities
243
To Your Tents 0 Israel
244
Young Voters
245
Wilberforce
247
For Unto Us a Child Is Born
248
Toward a New Racial Philosophy
250
Our Health
254
Our Class Struggle
255
Our Music
258
The Negro College
259
Organization
265
INDEX
267
ABOUT THE EDITOR
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Brian Johnson is professor of English at Gordon College and research fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.

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