Subject for March, 2020
VII. Of the Black Belt-2
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
How curious a land is this,—how full of untold story, of tragedy and laughter, and the rich legacy of human life; shadowed with a tragic past, and big with future promise! This ...
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VII. Of the Black Belt-1
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, Because the sun hath looked upon me:...
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VI. Of the Training of Black Men-2
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
While most fair-minded men would recognize this as extreme and overdrawn, still without doubt many are asking, Are there a sufficient number of Negroes ready for college trainin...
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VI. Of the Training of Black Men-1
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were’t not a Shame—were’t not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide? OMAR KHA...
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V. Of the Wings of Atalanta
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
O black boy of Atlanta! But half was spoken; The slave’s chains and the master’s Alike are broken; The one curse of the races Held both in tether; They are rising—all a...
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IV. Of the Meaning of Progress
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
Willst Du Deine Macht verkünden, Wähle sie die frei von Sünden, Steh’n in Deinem ew’gen Haus! Deine Geister sende aus! Die Unsterblichen, die Reinen, Die nicht fühlen, die nicht...
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III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
From birth till death enslaved; in word, in deed, unmanned! ****** Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? BYRON. Easily the most...
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II. Of the Dawn of Freedom-2
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
The act of 1866 gave the Freedmen’s Bureau its final form,—the form by which it will be known to posterity and judged of men. It extended the existence of the Bureau to July, 18...
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II. Of the Dawn of Freedom-1
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
Careless seems the great Avenger; History’s lessons but record One death-grapple in the darkness ’Twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong f...
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I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand, All night long crying with a mournful cry, As I lie and listen, and cannot understand The voice of my heart in my side ...
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