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The Color Line

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a famous American civil rights activist and leader. Du Bois earned a degree from Fisk University in 1888, and in 1882 attended the University of Berlin. Du Bois later became the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University. Apart from his activist and leader career, Du Bois wrote many books, which include his three major autobiographies. The most significant of his works were The Philadelphia Negro in 1896, The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, John Brown in 1909, Black Reconstruction in 1935 and Black Folk, Then and Now in 1939.
From Du Bois own personal experiences he formulated a group of essays on being African-American in "white" America. In The Souls of Black Folk, he clearly states what he thinks the problem is regarding race. "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the......

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