The Souls of Black Folk
9781970184020
204 pages
1828 Press
Overview
W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is a collection
of essays that elucidate the indignities Black Americans
experienced from the time of slavery through the Jim Crow era.
Author Bio
William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois (1868–1963) was born in
Massachusetts and educated at Fisk University, the University of Berlin,
and Harvard, where he was the first Black person to earn a doctorate. Du Bois was also
one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
