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Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to Alfred and Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois. [3] Mary Silvina Burghardt's family was part of the very small free black population of Great Barrington and had long owned land in the state.
Each chapter in The Souls of Black Folk begins with a pair of epigraphs: text from a poem, usually by a European poet, and the musical score of a spiritual, which Du Bois describes in his foreword ("The Forethought") as "some echo of haunting melody from the only American music which welled up from black souls in the dark past". [1]
Du Bois maintained that the book was written to develop an understanding of the complications of the color-line with emphasis on its political implications. “I venture to write again on themes on which great souls have already said greater words, in the hope that I may strike here and there a half-tone, newer even if slighter, up from the ...
After the publication of Claude Bowers' The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln, which promoted the Dunning school view, in 1929, Anna Julia Cooper wrote to Du Bois and asked him to write a response. [1] In 1930, Du Bois wrote to the Julius Rosenwald Fund to request funding for two books, including one on Reconstruction. [2] In 1931, he ...
W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963
The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological and epidemiological study of African Americans in Philadelphia that was written by W. E. B. Du Bois, commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and published in 1899 with the intent of identifying social problems present in the African American community.
The Du Bois and Dill Publishers ceased operations after publication of The Brownies' Book was discontinued. [7] Its only other publication was the 1921 book Unsung Heroes by Elizabeth Ross Haynes . [ 7 ]