Introduction by Donald B. Gibson
Acknowledgments
Suggestions for Further Reading
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
The Forethought
I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
II. Of the Dawn of Freedom
III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
IV. Of the Meaning of Progress
V. Of the Wings of Atalanta
VI. Of the Training of Black Men
VII. Of the Black Belt
VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece
IX. Of the Sons of Master and Man
X. Of the Faith of the Fathers
XI. Of the Passing of the First-Born
XII. Of Alexander Crummell
XIII. Of the Coming of John
XIV. Of the Sorrow Songs
The Afterthought
Notes by Monica M. Elbert
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was born in Great
Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868. He attended public schools
there prior to attending Fisk University, where he received his BA
degree in 1888. Thereafter he received a second BA degree, and an
MA and PhD from Harvard. He studied at the University of Berlin as
well. He taught at Wilberforce University and the University of
Pennsylvania before going to Atlanta University in 1897, where he
taught for many years. A sociologist, historian, poet, and writer
of several novels, Du Bois was one of the main founders of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was
a lifelong critic of American society and an advocate of black
people against racial injustice. He spent his last years in Ghana,
where he died in exile at the age of ninety-five.
Ibram X. Kendi is the author of the New York Times bestseller
Stamped from the Beginning- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas
in America, for which he became the youngest ever winner of the
National Book Award for Nonfiction.He is also the author of the
award-winning bookThe Black Campus Movement- Black Students and the
Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972. A professor
of history and international relations and the founding director of
the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University,
he lives in Washington, DC.
“I was assigned this book of essays in college and it was
transformative for me as a person and a writer. Du Bois captures
the complexity and the interiority of what it’s like to be black in
the United States, and even though it was written more than a
century ago, the way Du Bois writes makes it feel like he wrote
this book last year.” —Tomi Adeyemi, #1 New York
Times bestselling author of Children of Blood and Bone,
in the Good Morning America Book Club
“A work that is still relevant today . . . Vividly depict[s] what
it was like to be black . . . Many of the ideas that Du Bois
outlined in the book still endure. . . . [A book] for anyone who
wants to understand America.” —Lynn Neary, NPR’s Morning
Edition
“[The Souls of Black Folk is] the foundation on which Du Bois
built a lifetime of ideas, and on which the black and antiracist
intelligentsia continues to build today. . . . In 1903 . . . black
newspapers . . . typically shouted in unison, ‘SHOULD BE READ AND
STUDIED BY EVERY PERSON, WHITE AND BLACK.’ . . . And today it still
SHOULD BE READ AND STUDIED BY EVERY PERSON.” —Ibram X. Kendi, from
the Introduction
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