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the Black University concept w/ Bro. Abdul Alkalimat
W.E.B. Du Bois at the second annual meeting of the Niagara Movement at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, August 19, 1906, captured an early idea of the Black University concept in his speech titled: An Address to the Country. Du Bois writes: “And when we call for education, we mean real education. We believe in work. We ourselves are workers, but work is not necessarily education. Education is the development of power and ideal. We want our children trained as intelligent human beings should be, and we will fight for all time against any proposal to educate black boys and girls simply as…
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