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✧ W. E. B. Du Bois ✧

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an American sociologist, historian and civil rights activist. The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. He rose to national prominence as the leader of the...

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W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America is so, so good!

During the [American civil] war, [northern] labor was resentful. Workers were forced to fight in a strife between capitalists in which they had no interest and they showed their resentment in the peculiarly human way of beating and murdering the innocent victims of it all, the black free Negroes of New York and other Northern cities; while in the South, five million non-slaveholding poor white farmers and laborers sent their manhood by the thousands to fight and die for a system that had degraded them equally with the black slave. Could one imagine anything more paradoxical than this whole situation?

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"Historian #ElizabethHinton explores #WEBDuBois’s 1935 magnum opus #BlackReconstruction. We also hear from #EricFoner, #ChadWilliams, #SueMobley, and #KendraField."

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