...raising and unveiling of that bowed human heart, and now behold a century new for the duty and the deed. The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line. My journey was done, and behind me lay hill and dale, and Life and Death. How shall man measure Progress...

...raising and unveiling of that bowed human heart, and now behold a century new for the duty and the deed. The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line. I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas,...

...of special distinction — can only be hinted at here. Proud of his race, and declaring around 1900 that "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line," DuBois pursued activities that led to his convening the Niagara Conference in 1905, merging...

...blood, to deliberate solemnly upon the present situation and outlook of the darker races of mankind. The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, the question as to how far differences of race — which show themselves chiefly in the color of the...

...1903, he crystallized his seminal concept of "doubleconsciousness" in Souls of Black Folki4 and averred that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."i5 DuBois' book was read by many young writers of the Renaissance during their formative...

...in the Address of the Pan-African Conference in London in 1900, these imperial advocates understood that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line. "The difference was that the assembled pan-Africanists wished to obliterate it, whereas...

...Atlantic Monthly at virtually the same time and in the same publication in which WEB Du Bois would write that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line" (17) and John Muir would call for the preservation of "the forests of America" (i45)> 7...

...hundred years ago at the dawn of the twentieth century, WEB Du Bois forewarned, as previously noted, that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." During the latter part of the twentieth century, William Julius Wilsons book, The Declining...

...29. 23 Alice Walker's sardonic observation comes to mind here. When she glosses Du Bois's prophecy that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America...

...material basis for racism."18 In this way, Home observes, "Du Bois was edging away" from his earlier view that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line" and "edging toward the view that the twentieth century's problem was labor."19 Frazier,...