Authors: W.E.B. Du Bois

1917–1929

Returning Soldiers

W. E. B. Du Bois, “Returning Soldiers,” The Crisis 18 (May 1919), 13. Available at: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:512264/. We are returning from war! THE CRISIS and tens of thousands of black men

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1917–1929

Close Ranks

W. E. B. Du Bois, “Close Ranks,” The Crisis, 16 (July 1918), 111. Available at https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:511336/. This is the crisis of the world. For all the long years to come

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Race and Civil Rights
1917–1929

An Address to the Country

Source: “The Second Annual Meeting of the Niagara Movement,” Broad Ax 11, no. 44 (August 25, 1906), 1; available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080272 191&view=1up&seq=692. The men of the Niagara movement coming from

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Race and Civil Rights
1917–1929

The Souls of Black Folk

Source: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1903), 3–6, 9–12, 42–44, 50–53, 55–56, 57; available at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk/ZdV1AAAAMAAJ?hl=en . . .After the Egyptian

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1917–1929

Returning Soldiers

Source: W.E.B. DuBois, “Returning Soldiers,” The Crisis, XVIII (May, 1919), p. 13. We are returning from war! The Crisis and tens of thousands of black men were drafted into a great struggle. For

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1917–1929

Open Letters to Woodrow Wilson

Source: Editorial: “An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (March 1913): 236–37; Editorial: “Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (September 1913): 232–36, available online at the Hathi

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1877–1917

Open Letters to Woodrow Wilson

Source: Editorial: “An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (March 1913): 236–37; Editorial: “Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (September 1913): 232–36, available online at the Hathi

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1917–1929

Of the Sorrow Songs

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. “Of the Sorrow Songs,” in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 250-264. United States: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1903. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk/7psUAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. I walk

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