Du Bois's essays were the first to articulate many of Black America's thoughts and feelings, including the dilemma posed by the black psyche's "double consciousness," which Du Bois described as "this twoness-an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings. Washington, at the time the most influential black leader in America, and called for a more radical form of aggressive protest-a strategy that would anticipate and inspire much of the activism of the 1960s. In The Souls of Black Folk, published in 1903, Du Bois argued against the conciliatory position taken by Booker T. from Harvard University, Du Bois was a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement. The first African American to receive a Ph. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that describe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. One of the most influential books ever published in America, W.E.B. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212)
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