Both Black and White reformers united behind uplifting Blacks to change racist minds.

Evidence

In the aftermath of The Souls of Black Folk and Du Bois’s Talented Tenth essay, racial reformers and scholars of race, whether White or Black, whether applauding or critiquing Du Bois, seemed to have formed a consensus on the solution to the “Negro problem.” They spoke of the need for more strident uplift suasion, for upwardly mobile Talented Tenths persuading away the racist ideas of White folk. The strategy remained deeply racist. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 775

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘uplift suasion’ and its internal logic — persuading away racist ideas by impressing Whites — which fits Kendi’s assimilationist category.