The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
This beautifully illustrated book vividly conveys the continuing legacy of The Souls of Black Folk , effectively updating it for the era of the 1619 Project and Black Lives Matter..
Washington, the advocate of Black economic uplift, and the Pan-Africanist minister Alexander Crummell.
Readers will get a deeper understanding of the cultural debates The Souls of Black Folk engaged in, with more background on figures like Booker T.
Peart-Smith\'s Graphic adaptation provides historical and cultural contexts that bring to life the world behind Du Bois\'s words.
Now artist Paul Peart-Smith offers the first Graphic adaptation of Du Bois\'s seminal work.
Yet he also argued for the value of African American cultural traditions and provided inspiration for countless civil rights leaders who followed him.
The preeminent Black intellectual of his generation, Du Bois wrote about the trauma of seeing the Reconstruction era\'s promise of racial equality cruelly dashed by the rise of white supremacist terror and Jim Crow laws.
Du Bois\'s influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk .
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line
