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And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,—who is good? not that men are ignorant,—what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

—The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B.
Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois

1868–1963, American civil-rights leader and author, b. Great Barrington, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1890; M.A., 1891; Ph.D., 1895). Du Bois was an early exponent of full equality for African Americans and a cofounder (1905) of the Niagara Movement, which became (1909) the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). From 1897 to 1910, Du Bois taught economics and history at Atlanta Univ.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.

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WORKS: The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois sets out to show to the reader “the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century.”; Du Bois, W.E.B., 17872 to 17884
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