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W.E.B Du Bois


"One ever feels his two-ness. An American, a Negro; two souls, two
thoughts, two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps
it from being torn asunder." This was how William E. B. Du Bois described how
it felt to be a Negro in the beginning of the twentieth century in his book The
Souls of Black Folk. W.E.B. Du Bois, was a black editor, historian, sociologist,
and a leader of the civil rights movement in the United States. He helped found
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was
its spokesman in the first decades of its existence.
William Edward Bughardt Du Bois was born three years following the Civil
War, on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His paternal
side was French, settling in America in 1674 and, the Burghardts', his maternal
side, were descendants of slaves who fought in the Civil War.
William' father died when he was a child and was reared by his mother,
and judgmental......

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