W.E.B. Dubois’s Magnificent Letter of Advice to His Teenage Daughter
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W.E.B. Dubois’s Magnificent Letter of Advice to His Teenage Daughter
But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an air-tight cage of p
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