``The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.`` Thus speaks W.
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He draws on his own life for illustration, from his early experiences teaching in the hills of Tennessee to the death of hi.
In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the magnitude of American racism and demand an end to it.
Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk , one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. ``The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.`` Thus speaks W.
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