Intellectual History: "The Souls of Black Folk," W.E.B. DuBois

Intellectual History:
The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois, W. E. B.

The Souls of Black Folk; 20 pages; 6787 words, some visuals


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Of Our Spiritual Strivings

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One ever feels his twoness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
Page 6
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

W. E. B. DuBois was a leading figure from the Renaissance though the Civil Rights Era. At the forefront of the NAACP and eventually becoming an expatriot.