Ebook: Du Bois: Essays: The Black North, Of the Training of Black Men, The Talented Tenth, The Conservation of Races...

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William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. Contents:
A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South
Of the Training of Black Men
The Talented Tenth
The Conservation of Races
The Economic Revolution in the South
Religion in the South
Strivings of the Negro People
The Black North: A Social Study