... " "The Conservation of Races", delivered on March 5, 1987 in Washington D.C., had two distinct purposes. The main function was to define race. Dubois says race "is a vast family of human beings, generally of common blood and language, always of common history, ... united people they must be honest, fearlessly criticizing their own faults, zealously correcting them; they must be earnest." (p. 235) DuBois wishes that Negroes would band together to "guard the purity of black women", and to keep black boys from gambling and crime. He puts the responsibility on the Negroes to ... and remove t...

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