Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have...
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these...
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.