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Many of the most important writings of Du Bois’s long and distinguished career are collected in W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader, edited and with an introduction by Meyer Weinburg, and originally published in 1970.

Autobiobraphy of a People (2000) is a compilation of writings by African Americans from the Colonial period to today, edited by Herb Boyd with a forward by Gordon Parks, and showing the melding of the African and American cultures into a single identity.

James Weldon Johnson was a black author who wrote around the same time that Du Bois did. He was...

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