W.E.B. DuBois

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"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done." W.E.B. DuBois.

 

    William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1868-1963) was an educator, sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and one of the founders of the NAACP.

   Dubois wrote prolifically on civil rights issues. The Soul of Black Folk, a collection of essays is an eponymous work in Black literature. The introduction famously stated " The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line." a term from Fredrick Douglas he popularized. His book Black Reconstruction in America (1935) challenged the racist narrative that blacks caused the failures of the Reconstruction era. (source Wikipedia)

     He believed that capitalism was the primary cause of racism. [American democracy will fail] “If it is going to use this power to force the world into color prejudice and race antagonism; if it is going to use it to manufacture millionaires, increase the rule of wealth, and break down democratic government everywhere; if it is going increasingly to stand for reaction, fascism, white supremacy and imperialism; if it is going to promote war and not peace; then America will go the way of the Roman Empire.”

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