W. E. B Du Bois
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
[New edition].
Physical Desc
xxii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Published in 1903, this book contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African-American in American society. Outside of its notable place in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the early works to deal with sociology. -- adapted from...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
478 pages ; 14 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington both were instrumental in attempting to improve the social, political, and economic situation of African Americans around the turn of the century. Although they differed in how and when social, political, and economic improvement would occur, they both had a similar mission, Black Dignity. While African Americans were given a second class status in the United States, both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du...