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...