- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- T. Thomas Fortune the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880–1928
- Brief Chronology of T. Thomas Fortune's Life
- Prescript
- PART 1 Politics, Economics, and Education
- PART 2 Civil Rights and Race Leadership
- 11 The Virtue of Agitation
- 12 Civil Rights and Social Privileges
- 13 Afro-American League Convention Speech
- 14 Are We Brave Men or Cowards?
- 15 Mob Law in the South
- 16 Immorality of Southern Suffrage Legislation
- 17 False Theory of Education Cause of Race Demoralization
- 18 Failure of the Afro-American People to Organize
- 19 The Breath of Agitation Is Life
- 20 The Quick and the Dead
- 21 A Man Without A Country
- 22 Segregation and Neighborhood Agreements
- PART 3 Race and the Color Line
- PART 4 Africa, Emigration, and Colonialism
- Postscript
- Selected Bibliography of Fortune's Writings
- Selected Bibliography For Further Reading
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
- New Perspectives On the History of the South
False Theory of Education Cause of Race Demoralization
False Theory of Education Cause of Race Demoralization
- Chapter:
- (p.171) 17 False Theory of Education Cause of Race Demoralization
- Source:
- T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
- Author(s):
Shawn Leigh Alexander
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
This chapter presents the July 1904 essay, “False Theory of Education Cause of Race Demoralization,” where Fortune called attention to the fact that there were educated men who “have been saturated with the notion that their paramount mission in life is to lift up the race.” This, according to Fortune, created a race of leaders rather than a group of faithful followers “to execute the wise policies of capable men.” In the end, Fortune concluded that this sort of education has paralyzed “the thought and action of the race.”
Keywords: race pride, African Americans, education, leaders, education
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- T. Thomas Fortune the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880–1928
- Brief Chronology of T. Thomas Fortune's Life
- Prescript
- PART 1 Politics, Economics, and Education
- PART 2 Civil Rights and Race Leadership
- 11 The Virtue of Agitation
- 12 Civil Rights and Social Privileges
- 13 Afro-American League Convention Speech
- 14 Are We Brave Men or Cowards?
- 15 Mob Law in the South
- 16 Immorality of Southern Suffrage Legislation
- 17 False Theory of Education Cause of Race Demoralization
- 18 Failure of the Afro-American People to Organize
- 19 The Breath of Agitation Is Life
- 20 The Quick and the Dead
- 21 A Man Without A Country
- 22 Segregation and Neighborhood Agreements
- PART 3 Race and the Color Line
- PART 4 Africa, Emigration, and Colonialism
- Postscript
- Selected Bibliography of Fortune's Writings
- Selected Bibliography For Further Reading
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
- New Perspectives On the History of the South