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American Negro Monographs, No. 4
The Social Evolution of the Black South
BY W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS
The American Negro Monographs Co. 609 F STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C.
American Negro Monographs.
Historical and Educational Papers, Published Occasionally by the
AMERICAN NEGRO MONOGRAPHS CO. 609 F STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C.
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The Social Evolution of the Black South
BY W. E. Burghardt DUBOIS
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DR. W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS.
Dr. W. E. BURGHARDT Dubois is a native of Great Barrington, Mass. After receiving an education in the schools of his native city he entered Fisk University, Tennessee, from which he graduated with the degree of A. B. He subsequently graduated from Harvard and received the degree of Ph. D. He obtained a scholarship and studied two years abroad. Returning to the U. S., he entered upon a distinguished career both as an educator and author. He taught at Wilberforce University, and for more than ten years was Professor of History and Political Economy in Atlanta University. Dr. DuBois is editor of the "Crisis," the organ of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People.
The Social Evolution of the Black South.
BY W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS.
I have worded the subject which I am going to treat briefly in this paper; "The Social Evolution of the Black South," and I mean by that, the way in which the more intimate matters of contact of Negroes with themselves and with their neighbors have changed in the evolution of the last half century from slavery to larger freedom. It will be necessary first in order to understand this evolution to remind you of certain well known conditions in the South during slavery. The unit of the social system of the South was the plantation, and the plantation was peculiar from the fact that it tended to be a monarchy and not an aristocracy.
Among the first of these three attitudes is the wily and oily orator who attends Northern chautauquas and tells of his love for his black mammy; the brutal hot-headed brawler and lyncher who wants to fight a desperate cause but takes it out in fighting the helpless; and finally the man who typifies what is called the "silent South". On the part of the Negro there are avowed also the three types: the wiley and crafty man who tells the North and the Negro of the kindness of the South and advance of the black man; the fighter who complains or shoots or migrates; and the silent sensitive black man who suffers but says nothing. Now of these three types I am free to say that the one of whom I hope most is the white brawler and the black fighter; I mean by that not that lynching is not horrible and fighting terrible but I do mean that these are types of men of a certain rough honesty.
Your Tillmans and your Vardamans represent a certain disgusting but honest ignorance which acts upon its information and some day when it gets the right information it is going to act right. On the other hand, I believe that at the end of the devious way of the compromiser and liar lies moral death.
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