![]() ![]() Specifically, DuBois introduced in this work his well-known concept of “double-consciousness,” which characterized the black experience in America as one of “warring” dual identity. This provocative collection of essays helped establish him as a leading progressive critic of the “color line” which was still dividing Americans at the turn of the twentieth century despite the wartime destruction of slavery and the post-war constitutional promise of equality. DuBois authored The Souls of Black Folk 1903 when he was 35-years-old. He later helped expose racism in the US military and supported African nationalist in their quests for independence from European colonial powers. For many years, DuBois served as editor of the NAACP journal, The Crisis. DuBois then became a noted academic working at several universities, and during the early twentieth century, helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which soon emerged as the nation’s premier civil rights organization. Born in Massachusetts following the Civil War, he was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard. DuBois (1868–1963) was a famous scholar and activist who fought for civil rights for black people in both the United States and Africa. ![]() The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line ![]()
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