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| Herein lie buried many things
which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of
being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This
meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the
problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the
color-line. |
W.E.B.
Du Bois | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois |
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| W.E.B. Du
Bois said, on the launch of his groundbreaking 1903 treatise
The Souls of Black Folk, "for the problem of the
Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line"—a
prescient statement. Setting out to show to the reader "the
strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the
Twentieth Century," Du Bois explains the meaning of the
emancipation, and its effect, and his views on the role of the
leaders of his race. |
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TO
Burghardt and Yolande
THE LOST AND THE FOUND |
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CHICAGO: A.C. McCLURG & CO., 1903
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999 |
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