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    Souls of Black Folk
    Souls of Black Folk
    Souls of Black Folk
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    Souls of Black Folk

    Written by W. E. B. Du Bois

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, 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 first works to deal with sociology. (Summary from Wikipedia.org)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    W. E. B. Du Bois

    W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was an African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and socialist. Born in Massachusetts, he was raised in Great Barrington, an integrated community. He studied at the University of Berlin and at Harvard, where he became the first African American scholar to earn a doctorate. He worked as a professor at Atlanta University, a historically Black institution, and was one of the leaders of the Niagara Movement, which advocated for equal rights and opposed Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta compromise. In 1909, he cofounded the NAACP and served for years as the editor of its official magazine The Crisis. In addition to his activism against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and other forms of discrimination and segregation, Du Bois authored such influential works as The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Black Reconstruction in America (1935). A lifelong opponent of racism and a committed pacifist, Du Bois advocated for socialism as a means of replacing racial capitalism in America and around the world. In the 1920s, he used his role at The Crisis to support the artists of the Harlem Renaissance and sought to emphasize the role of African Americans in shaping American society in his book The Gift of Black Folk (1924).

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    • 5/5
      Eloquent damning review of how African Americans were hindered at every turn from being given any fair shake to overcome their beginnings in this country
    • 5/5
      This book remains a classic partly because it records the truth of its history. It also remains a classic, unfortunately, because so much of it remains true today, as we see in the biases and abuses that continue between the races today. Perhaps some day readers will listen to this book as history only and not as contemporary commentary.