The Talented Tenth
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The Talented Tenth was written by W. E. B. Du Bois in September 1903. Published as the second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans (New York: James Pott and Company, 1903).
The Talented Tenth was a term coined by Du Bois during the Harlem Renaissance to describe the phenomenon of one in ten black people becoming influential in the world, through methods such as continuing their education, writing books, or becoming directly involved in social change.
Though used in W.E.B. Du Bois's book, they were real people. They were the following people: Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith, James Van Der Zee, Walter White, Alain Locke, and Fats Waller.
