Reaction to "The Souls of Black Folk"

The essay "Of the training of Black Men" by W.E.B du Bois is one of the many essays from his book "The Souls of Black Folk." This essay focuses on the importance of African Americans receiving a higher education. He emphasizes that gaining a quality education is the portal to developing a well cultured mind. This essay was written in First person point of view.
The purpose of his essay was to inform people of the lack of African Americans with proper education and the effect it's having on it's people. Du Bois adresses these issues in his essay by stating that" Surely we have wit enough to found a Negro college so manned and equipped as to steer successfully between the dilettante and the fool. We shall hardly include black men to believe that if their stomachs be full, it matters little about their brain." This quote helps to visualize the way people thought of African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance. You can tell that this essay was written during the Renaissance because it talked about a lot of the problems African Americans faced during those tines.

-Omobolade