American Decades
The Souls of Black Folk
Nonfiction work
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
Date: 1903
Source: Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1903. Available online at http://www.bartleby.com/114/10.html; website home page: http://www.bartleby.com/ (accessed May 16, 2003).
About the Author: W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868–1963) was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard University, completing a bachelor's degree in 1888, a master's three years later, and a doctorate in 1895. For the next fifteen years he taught economics and history at Atlanta University. In 1910, Du Bois and others organized the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Introduction
During slavery and postslavery times, African American churches became...
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- "Total Abstinence"
- Religious Opposition to Imperialism
- Graves de Communi Re (On Christian Democracy)
- "Unity of the Human Race"
- The Varieties of Religious Experience
- The Souls of Black Folk
- "Remarks of Dr. Washington Gladden"
- "How Can We as Women Advance the Standing of the Race?"
- Lamentabili Sane (Condemning the Errors of the Modernists)
- Reuben Quick Bear v. Leupp
- Rudimental Divine Science
- Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology
- "Attempts at Religious Legislation from 1888–1945"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
