Beautiful letter from W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter Yolande
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Beautiful letter from W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter Yolande
The economic predicament with which he was identified in birth placed him initially with the great mass of men on the earth.…
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30 percent of Black medical school graduates first served as Pullman porters.13 In 1924, my grandfather told the New York Times, “I was studying to be
When I was a youngster, this was drilled into me by my grandmother. The idea was given to her by a certain slave minister who, on occasion, held secret religious meetings with his fellow slaves. How everything in me quivered with the pulsing tremor of raw energy when, in her recital, she would come to the triumphant climax of the minister: “You—you
... See moreThis conceptual duple reflected what W.E.B. Du Bois indelibly voiced in The Souls of Black Folk in 1903. “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others,” Du Bois wrote. He would neither “Africanize America” nor “bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism.”