HW 9/26

Strivings of the Negro People:

opportunity of educating, cultivating themselves is proof that AA could contribute to American life and culture

blacks have a double conscious

negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with a second sight in this American world- a world which yields him no self consciousness but only lets him see himself through revelation of the other world

second decade of American Negro’s freedom was a period of conflict, of inspiration and doubt, faith and vain questionings

ideals of physical freedom, political power, school training for social ills became in the 3rd decade dim and overcast