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The Talented Tenth-Black History Is Everyone’s History

Where We All Come From

The Talented Tenth

Did you know that the book The Negro Problem was edited by Booker T. Washington?

Henry Lyman Morehouse, a white man and also the namesake for the historically Black all men’s college, Morehouse University believed that the most talented of Black men, the top ten percent will be the ones to save the Black race from destruction. 

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