Talented Tenth

Talented Tenth

▪ educational concept
  (1903), concept espoused by black educator and author W.E.B. Du Bois (Du Bois, W.E.B.), emphasizing the necessity for higher education to develop the leadership capacity among the most able 10 percent of black Americans. Du Bois was one of a number of black intellectuals who feared that what they saw as the overemphasis on industrial training (as evidenced, for example, by the plan proposed by Booker T. Washington (Washington, Booker T) in the 1895 Atlanta Compromise) would confine blacks permanently to the ranks of second-class citizenship. In order to achieve political and civil equality, Du Bois stressed the importance of educating African American teachers, professional men, ministers, and spokesmen, who would earn their special privileges by dedicating themselves to “leavening the lump” and “inspiring the masses.” The phrase Talented Tenth first appeared in Du Bois' The Negro Problem (New York, 1903).

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