Word: philedelphia
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...serious literature which analyzes the organizational revolution of black urban social structure and its stratification system, the opportunistic behavioral patterns of this class is presented as a defining characteristic of the group. W.E.B. DuBois, for example, noted in an 1899 sociological study of the black community in Philedelphia, that the local elites were in general politically and intellectually bankrupt. They were, he wrote, "not leaders of the idealmakers of their own group in thought, work or morals." By 1932 little had changed in his view. When addressing the graduating class of Howard University, DuBois charged that college-educated, elite Blacks...
...Philedelphia 14, Chicago...
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