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W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company

W. E. B. Du Bois

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Biography of W. E. B. Du Bois

• Born in Massachusetts in 1868

• First African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University

• Published pioneering works in sociology, including The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

• Co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Spent the final years of his life in Ghana, advocating for Pan-African causes

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W. E. B. Du Bois

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W. E. B. Du Bois

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W. E. B. Du Bois

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The Souls of Black Folk

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The Souls of Black Folk

“[T]he Negro is . . . gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”

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The Souls of Black Folk

“One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.”

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The Souls of Black Folk

“Before each chapter, as now printed, stands a bar of the Sorrow Songs [spirituals composed by African American slaves],—some echo of haunting melody from the only American music which welled up from black souls in the dark past.”

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The Souls of Black Folk

“It was the ideal of "book-learning"; the curiosity, born of compulsory ignorance, to know and test the power of the cabalistic letters of the white man, the longing to know. Here at last seemed to have been discovered the mountain path to Canaan; longer than the highway of Emancipation and law, steep and rugged, but straight, leading to heights high enough to overlook life.”

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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Biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Born to slave parents in Mississippi in 1862

• Orphaned at age 16; raised her five siblings by working as a teacher

• As a journalist she advocated for women’s rights and for an end to lynching

• Helped to found the NAACP

• Worked closely with Jane Addams, a prominent suffragist

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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“Mob Rule in New Orleans”

“Capt. Day started for Charles’ room. As soon as Charles got sight of him there was a flash, a report, and Day fell dead in his tracks. In another instant Charles was standing in the door, and seeing Patrolman Peter J. Lamb, he drew his gun and Lamb fell dead.”

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“Mob Rule in New Orleans”

“There were no valuables in his room, and if he was a professional thief he had his headquarters for storing his plunder at some other place than his room on Fourth street. Nothing was found in his room that could lead to the belief that he was a thief, except fifty or more small bits of soap . . . His wearing apparel was little more than rags, and financially he was evidently not in a flourishing condition.”

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