III. "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"

The third essay in The Souls of  Black Folk is a revision of "The Evolution of Negro Leadership", an article Du Bois wrote for the July 16, 1901 issue of the Dial.  Established in 1840 as a transcendentalist magazine edited first by Margaret Fuller and later by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Dial was re-established in 1880 as a "socially humanitarian" fortnightly composed of letters, ideology, and propaganda. The poetry is a brief excerpt from Lord Byron poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" Canto 2 published in 1812.  The musical notation is from the Negro spiritual, "A Great Camp Meeting in the Promised Land".
Check out youtube link of the MetroSingers singing this spiritual:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCv5NaxKOVlI