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W. E. B. Du Bois

1868–1963

Sociologist of The Souls of Black Folk

The color line is his name for the century, stated in 1903 and then lived. He argued with Booker T. Washington in public and did not pretend the argument was about tone. It was about what kind of freedom was being offered.

In the canon

  1. The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.The Souls of Black Folk

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