- How sure this is
- 93% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- What turned up
- "The Talented Tenth" (1903), in The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-Day.
- Sources checked
- macmillan.yale.eduChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 20 August 2026Yale MacMillan Center reproduces the full surrounding paragraph
- gutenberg.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 21 August 2026