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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2016
Education and freedom were indivisible for W. E. B. Du Bois. “The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men” (Du Bois, 2003, p. 33), he asserted in 1903. We “must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth ... developing the Best of this race to guide the Mass.” An educated elite would provide leadership. He renounced Booker T. Washington's program of industrial education and black accommodation. Yet the Talented Tenth embraced both leaders. Du Bois and his followers not only formed the Niagara Movement; they also agitated for political and civil rights, including access to higher learning in liberal arts.
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