W.E.B. Du Bois Index
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Strivings of the Negro People (1897)
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Du Bois argues that given the chance, African Americans would contribute to society after they had achieved self-respect and self-realization.
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A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South (1899)
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Du Bois discusses his experience as a schoolteacher in Tennessee and the barriers some of his students faced.
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The Freedmen's Bureau (1901)
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Here, Du Bois writes about the success and failure of the Freedmen's Bureau.
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The Black North: A Social Study (1901)
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Du Bois argues that not only in the South have blacks faced poverty and restricted rights, but it is a problem of the North as well.
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Of the Training of Black Men (1902)
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This article was written in response to Booker T. Washington's article, "The Case of the Negro". In it, he argues that it is not enough for African Americans to become economically stable, and instead they must become educated.
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The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
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The full text of this widely read book.
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