...sweet melodies of the negro-slave ; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and' African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple...reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness." Such considerations may well give pause to those who are inclined to follow Mr. Washington's method...

...sweet melodies of the negro-slave ; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple...reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness." Such considerations may well give pause to those who are inclined to follow Mr. Washington's method...

...melodies of the negro slave ; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African ; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple...reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness." According to Mr. Burghardt, the indirect results of Mr. Booker T. Washington's teachings have been:...

...melodies of the Negro slave ; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African ; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple J:aith and reverence in a dusty desert smartness. ^Vill America be poorer if she replace her brutal...

...and statisticians enumerate the ratio of mulattoes to the entire black population. And all in all the black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and...reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness." The vision of this people athirst for knowledge is not misleading — it is the keynote to their latest...

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...replaced her brutal dyspeptic blundering with light-hearted but determined Negro humility?" he asked. "Or her coarse and cruel wit with loving jovial good-humor? or her vulgar music with the soul of the Sorrow Songs?" The black man's "sense of meekness," said Du Bois, "has breathed the soul of humility and forgiveness...

...sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple...good-humor? or her vulgar music with the soul of the Sorrow Songs? Merely a concrete test of the underlying principles of the great republic is the Negro Problem,...

...sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple...reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness." Thus it is that by getting out, by pursuing an exclusive blackness in a portion of their lives, which...

...money-getting plutocracy." In The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois similarly referred to black people as "the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of Dollars." In both the essay and the book, the black American was viewed as having a particular message to contribute...