n institution, certain conscious and subconscious ideologies remained. Du bois understood the internal color conflicts within the Black community when he declared that, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, - the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia, and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the civil war" (Du Bois 15). The obvious absence of Du Bois stating that the problem of the color line was not merely a black and white problem reaffirms his consciousness of the intra-racial disharmony. With the turn of the twentieth century, Blacks as a whole in America began experiencing freedoms and opportunities never afforded to them. "The elitism that had begu
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