W. E. B. Du Bois
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American scholar and civil rights leader (1868 to 1963); the first Black person to receive a PhD from Harvard; edited The Crisis, a publication of the NAACP.
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line (opens korrents.com)
“This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.”
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Black Americans live with a double consciousness, always seeing themselves through the eyes of a contemptuous world (opens korrents.com)
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
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Black Americans need schooling more than ever, both practical training and higher culture (opens korrents.com)
“The training of the schools we need to-day more than ever,-the training of deft hands, quick eyes and ears, and above all the broader, deeper, higher culture of gifted minds and pure hearts.”
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line (opens korrents.com)