Education and Work

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What then has become of this controversy as to college and industrial education for Negroes? Has it been duly settled, and if it has, how has it been settled? Has it been transmuted into a new program, and if so, what is that program? In other words, what is the present norm of Negro education, represented at once by Howard University, Fisk, and Atlanta on one hand, and by Hampton Institute, Tuskegee, and the land-grant college on the other? I answer once for all, the problem has not been settled. The questions raised in those days of controversy still stand in all their validity and all their pressing insistence on an answer. They have not been answered, and these men and women of this audiences and like audiences throughout the land are the ones from whom the world demands final reply.

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Du Bois, W.E.B. “Education and Work.” The Journal of Negro Education 1, no. 1 (1932). 60-74