Crummell held that educated Black scholars, not masses, would uplift the race

Evidence

Who are to be the agents to raise and elevate this people to a higher plane of beings? The answer will at once flash upon your intelligence. It is to be affected (sic) by the scholars and philanthropists which come forth in these days from the schools. They are to be the scholars; for to transform, stimulate and uplift a people is a work of intelligence. It is a work which demands the clear induction of historic facts and their application to new circumstances,—a work which will require the most skillful resources and the wise practicality of superior men. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 894

Categorization

• DEFINE: Primary-source statement of the race-uplift ideology’s elitist core assumption the Black radical tradition would reject.
• XREF: Recalls Du Bois’s ‘Talented Tenth’ later codified as this same scholar-elite uplift premise. — connects to: Alexander Crummell cast educated Black scholars as the elite agents of uplift.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Alexander Crummell cast educated Black scholars as the elite agents of uplift.

Broader Connections

• Alexander Crummell cast educated Black scholars as the elite agents of uplift. #corroborates (0.98)