Adam Harris
speaker
1,438 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 5d ago
Adam Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Those colleges like Fisk that were training black people to go back and teach their kin were of the highest importance.
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Du Bois wrote, quote, In a single generation, they put thirty thousand black teachers in the South.
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They wiped out the illiteracy of the majority of the black people of the land, and they made Tuskegee possible.
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The schools Du Bois praised developed not only workers, but full men.
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They produced people capable of critical thought.
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The Bible says that man shall not live by bread alone.
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Du Bois had his own version.
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Quote, We shall hardly induce black men to believe that if their bellies be full, it matters little about their brains.
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Now, the reality that both men acknowledged is that both forms of teaching, the one that begins with the theoretical and the other with the practical, are necessary to improve the situation for black people in America.
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To unwind the damage done by generations of laws which banned black education.
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Washington thought enough of his critics to respond, which he did in the October nineteen oh three issue of The Atlantic.
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Where he wrote quote
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I cannot understand how any reasonable person can object to such education for a large part of the people who are in the poverty-stricken condition that is true of a large element of my race.
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Especially when such hand training is combined as it should be.
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with the best education of the head and heart.
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But the issue was that Washington's idea of a practical education which would disregard social equality was weaponized.
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It was treated as the only way rather than a way.
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As Du Bois noted in his nineteen oh two essay, quote
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I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.
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Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls,
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