The Souls of Black Folk

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The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois

The Forethought→

Information about this edition The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of African-American literature by W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African-American in American society. Outside of its notable place in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the early works to deal with sociology.— Excerpted from The Souls of Black Folk on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.

To Burghardt and Yolande

The Lost and the Found

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• The Forethought
• I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
• II. Of the Dawn of Freedom
• III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
• IV. Of the Meaning of Progress
• V. Of the Wings of Atalanta
• VI. Of the Training of Black Men
• VII. Of the Black Belt
• VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece
• IX. Of the Sons of Master and Man
• X. Of the Faith of the Fathers
• XI. Of the Passing of the First-Born
• XII. Of Alexander Crummell
• XIII. Of the Coming of John
• XIV. Of the Sorrow Songs
• The Afterthought

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