• Atlanta University Studies
  • Mortality Among Negroes in Cities, Atlanta University Publications no. 1 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1896)
  • Social and Physical Condition of Negroes in Cities, Atlanta University Publications no. 2 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1897)
  • Some Efforts of American Negroes for Their Own Social Betterment, Atlanta University Publications no. 3 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1898)
  • The Negro in Business, Atlanta University Publications no. 4 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1899)
  • The Negro Artisan: A Social Study, Atlanta University Publications no. 7 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1902)
  • The Negro Church, Atlanta University Publications no. 8 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1903)
  • Some Notes on Negro Crime Particularly in Georgia, Atlanta University Publications no. 9 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1904)
  • A Select Bibliography of the Negro American, Atlanta University Publications no. 10 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1905)
  • Economic Co-Operation Among Negro Americans, Atlanta University Publications no. 12 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1907)
  • The Negro American Family, Atlanta University Publications no. 13 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1908)
  • Efforts for Social Betterment Among Negro Americans, Atlanta University Publications no. 14 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1909)
  • The College-Bred Negro American, Atlanta University Publications no. 15 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1910)
  • The Negro American Artisan, Atlanta University Publications no. 17 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1912)
  • Morals and Manners Among Negro Americans, Atlanta University Publications no. 18 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1914)
    See also the TEI-encoded version of this title
  • Select Discussions of Race Problems, Atlanta University Publications no. 20 (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1916)
    Includes:

    • Du Bois, W. E. B., "Races of men"
    • Luschan, Felix von, "Anthropological view of race"
    • Mall, Franklin P., "Anatomical characters of the human brain"
    • Woodworth, R. S., "Racial differences in mental traits"
    • Thomas, W. I., "The mind of the savage"
    • Boas, Franz, "Old African civilizations"
    • Chamberlain, Alexander Francis, "The contribution of the Negro to human civilization"
    • Boas, Franz, "Race problems in the United States"
• The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870. (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896). (Project Gutenberg)
• The Conservation of the Races. American Negro Academy Occasional Papers 2 (1897). (Project Gutenberg)
• Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1920). (Project Gutenberg)
• The Negro (New York: Henry Holt, 1915). (Project Gutenberg)
• The Philadelphia Negro: With a Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward, Philadelphia (New York: Lippincott, 1899). (courtesy Larry R. Ridener of Pfeiffer University).
• The Quest of the Silver Fleece (Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1911). (Project Gutenberg)
• Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1903). (Project Gutenberg)

• "The evolution of Negro leadership," The Dial 31 (July 16, 1901): 53-55. (Douglass Archive of American Public Address)
• "The Freedmen's Bureau," Atlantic Monthly 87 (1901): 354-365. (E-Text center at the University of Virginia )
• "A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South," Atlantic Monthly 83, no. 495 (January 1899): 99-104. (E-Text center at the University of Virginia )
• The Niagara Movement: Declaration of Principles (s.l.: s.n., 1905). (SCUA pdf file, also available as an downloadable rtf file)
• "Of the Training of Black Men," Atlantic Monthly 90 (1902): 289-297. (E-Text center at the University of Virginia )
• "Strivings of the Negro People," Atlantic Monthly 80, no. 478 (August 1897): 194-198. (E-Text center at the University of Virginia )
• "The Talented Tenth," from The Negro Problem (New York: James Pott and Company, 1903). (Douglass Archive of American Public Address)

See also Selected essays of W.E.B. Du Bois for works on education, suffrage, and war.

I BELIEVE in God who made of one blood all races that dwell on earth. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.

Especially do I believe in the Negro Race; in the beauty of its genius, the sweetness of its soul, and its strength in that meekness which shall yet inherit this turbulent earth.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self; in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even tho they be not brothers-in-law.

I believe in Service -- humble reverent service, from the blackening of boots to the whitening of souls; for Work is Heaven, Idleness Hell, and Wage is the "Well done!" of the Master who summoned all them that labor and are heavy laden, making no distinction between the black sweating cotton-hands of Georgia and the First Families of Virginia, since all distinction not based on deed is devilish and not divine.

I believe in the Devil and his angels, who wantonly work to narrow the opportunity of struggling human beings, especially if they be black; who spit in the faces of the fallen, strike them that cannot strike again, believe the worst and work to prove it, hating the image which their Maker stamped on a brother's soul.

I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong; and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

I believe in Liberty for all men; the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of God and love.

I believe in the training of children black even as white; the leading out of little souls into the green pastures and beside the still waters, not for pelf or peace, but for Life lit by some large vision of beauty and goodness and truth; lest we forget, and the sons of the fathers, like Esau, for mere meat barter their birthright in a mighty nation.

Finally, I believe in Patience -- patience with the weakness of the Weak and the strength of the Strong, the prejudice of the Ignorant and the ignorance of the Blind; patience with the tardy triumph of Joy and the mad chastening of Sorrow -- patience with God.

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