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W. E. B. DuBois: The narrator, a scholar of black identity in post-Civil War America.
Booker T. Washington: A leader who advised blacks to cede social equality in exchange for access to economic power.
President Abraham Lincoln: United States president who signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves.
Frederick Douglass: An advisor to Lincoln and a leader of the abolitionist movement to end slavery.
Atalanta: The mythological maiden whose downfall DuBois links to...
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