The Souls of Black Folk

A historian, teacher and sociologist, Du Bois remains one of the most important leaders of African American protest in the United States, and during the first half of the 20th Century, he was the leading black opponent of racial discrimination. Even at his most critical, Du Bois expressed the hope and faith that blacks and whites would unite and that race relations would greatly improve. In Souls of Black Folk Du Bois portrays African Americans as a people who experience racial suffering and injustices, but also as a people with great strengths and resources who must fight ABy every civilized and peaceful method...for the rights which the world accords to men, clinging unwaveringly to those great words which the sons of the Fathers would fain forget: >We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal...=@ (Du Bois 48). In addition, Du Bois believed that if blacks could reasonably explain black reality to whites, then whites would change their mi

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