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The Talented Tenth is a term that designated a leadership class of
African Americans in the early 20th century. The term was created
by Northern philanthropists, then publicized by W. E. B. Du Bois
in an influential essay of the same name, which he published in
September 1903. It appeared in The Negro Problem, a collection of
essays written by leading African Americans.

The phrase "talented tenth" originated in 1896 among Northern white
liberals, specifically the American Baptist Home Mission Society, a
Christian missionary society strongly supported by John D. Rockefeller.
They had the goal of establishing black colleges in the South to train
Negro teachers and elites.

Du Bois used the term "the talented tenth" to describe the likelihood
of one in 10 black men becoming leaders of their race in the world,
through methods such as continuing their education, writing books, or
becoming directly involved in social change. He strongly believed that
blacks needed a classical education to be able to reach their full
potential, rather than the industrial education promoted by the Atlanta
compromise which was endorsed by Booker T. Washington and some white
philanthropists. He saw classical education as the basis for what, in
the 20th century, would be known as public intellectuals:


Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the
schools — intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was
and is, and of the relation of men to it — this is the curriculum of that
Higher Education which must underlie true life. On this foundation we may
build bread winning, skill of hand and quickness of brain, with never a
fear lest the child and man mistake the means of living for the object of
life.



The Talented Tenth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talented_Tenth



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_Academy




Learned societies of the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Learned_societies_of_the_United_States




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Talented Tenth
http://scua.library.umass.edu/duboisopedia/doku.php?id=about:talented_tenth

The Talented Tenth
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-talented-tenth/

The Talented Tenth
http://www.webdubois.org/dbTalentedTenth.html

The Talented Tenth
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1148.htm

The Talented Tenth
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Talented-Tenth

The Talented Tenth
http://www.sigmapiphi.org/home/the-talented-tenth.php

Who Really Invented the ‘Talented Tenth’?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/who-really-invented-the-talented-tenth/



African-American Resources
http://www.ushistory.org/more/african-american.htm




African American Studies Library Research Guide
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/aframer.htm




African Music Encyclopedia
http://africanmusic.org/




AFROPEDEA
http://www.afropedia.org



World Afropedia
http://worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Main_Page




African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems
http://www.africahistory.net/




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http://tribalspedia.wikia.com/wiki/Natives_Wiki




Islamic Wiki
http://islam.wikia.com/




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