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by Professor W. E. B. Du Bois (Author)
The Souls of Black Folk, originally published in 1903, contains a number of groundbreaking essays on race and race relations by scholar and activist W.E.B. DuBois.
As an early work in the field of sociology, this book analyzes the interactions between the races and offers a solution for the strife and inequality that had come to characterize those interactions. DuBois believed that education was the route to a better life for all blacks, and his recommendation became the basis for the civil rights movement.
Anyone interested in history, race relations, sociology, or the intellectual heritage of the United States will find this an essential read.
American writer, civil rights activist, and scholar W.E.B. DUBOIS (1868-1963) was a free-born African American in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was the first black man to receive a PhD from Harvard University and was convinced that education was the means for African Americans to achieve equality. He wrote a number of important books, including The Philadelphia Negro (1899), Black Folk, Then and Now (1899), and The Negro (1915).
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois was the first African American to be awarded a Harvard Ph.D., Du Bois taught several languages at Wilberforce University from 1895-1897. Du Bois spent nearly a quarter century on the faculty of Atlanta University as professor of economics, history and sociology (1897-1910) and head of the sociology department (1934-1944). Du Bois's writings and his intellectual guidance as teacher, researcher, and editor at Atlanta University contributed immensely to its reputation as a preeminent resource for the study of race in America. Du Bois edited 14 publications, was the founder and editor of a magazine, and also the founder and editor of a newspaper. Du Bois, one of the co-founders of the NAACP and a member of its board of directors, was also the editor of the NAACP publication Crisis from 1910-1934.
ISBN: 1602067201
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