The Souls of Black Folk by William E. B. Du Bois
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“Few books make history and fewer still become the foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people....” One such great work was The Souls of Black Folk by William EB Du Bois. Published in 1903, it is a powerful and hard-hitting view of sociology, race and American history. It became the cornerstone of the civil rights movement and when Du Bois attended the first National Negro Conference in 1909, he was already well-known as a proponent of full and unconditional equality for African Americans. In the following year, he became one of the co-founders of the National Association for the...
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- 01 – The Forethought & Chapter 1 – Of Our Spiritual Strivings
- 02 – Chapter 2 – Of the Dawn of Freedom, part 1
- 03 – Chapter 2 – Of the Dawn of Freedom, part 2
- 04 – Chapter 3 – Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
- 05 – Chapter 4 – Of the Meaning of Progress
- 06 – Chapter 5 – Of the Wings of Atalanta
- 07 – Chapter 6 – Of the Training of Black Men
- 08 – Chapter 7 – Of the Black Belt, part 1
- 09 – Chapter 7 – Of the Black Belt, part 2
- 10 – Chapter 8 – Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece, part 1