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National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: The New Negro and the Black Image: From Booker T. Washington to Alain Locke

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This essay explores how Booker T. Washington and others used the term "New Negro" as an attempt to recreate the race by suggesting education, refinement, money, assertiveness, and racial consciousness.

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african american culture
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black progress, african american identity, nhc: the new negro and the black image: from booker t. washington to alain locke, old negro
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