Student’s Name
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W.E.B Du Bois
America at the decades between XIX-XX centuries made its first efforts on the establishment of the democratic and force country. Civil war in the USA between the industrial North and the agrarian slaveholding South became 1861-1865 a turning point in the American history. The period of a post-war emptiness and fatigue came to change the innocent optimism of the young democratic nation. The American idealism continued to develop, but its orientation changed. If before the war idealists supported the human rights and especially slavery cancellation, after war Americans start idealizing more the progress and the person who can …show more content…
At the beginning of the XIX century the USA became one of mighty powers of the world. The monopolies, trusts, and corporations developed. The riches were becoming richer, and the poor were becoming poorer. In the country there was an intensive development of the western territories became populated by million emigrants from Europe (Gooding-Williams, 2009). Respectively the national structure of the state changed too. It should be noted that during this period, the majority of inhabitants of the USA still kept reckless belief in a phenomenon of "the American dream", guaranteeing to each citizen, "new Adam" paradise on the guilty of the earth. It seemed like all class and religious barriers are broken, social, educational, ideological and other restrictions are liquidated, and the person has unlimited opportunities and can express him or her self as an individual. Consequently, the chances to achieve success are equal for all. And nevertheless the society has many of problems especially according to the right of the Afro-Americans and to these cases, the most significant impact had the American literature that viewed all the aspects of that time. Everything in America: the appearance of industrial and …show more content…
In 1951 at the height of Du Bois Marxism accusation for service was brought of the Soviet investigation and though subsequently charge was dismissed, the State Department did not issue it in the passport up to 1958. In 1961 he entered a Communist party and at the age of 91 year moved to Ghana to a constant residence. He explained the act so: "Capitalism can not reform itself. The communism – attempt to give to all people that they need and to ask from them that they are capable to offer and it is the only right way". William Du Bois died in Ghana on August 27, 1963 (Gooding-Williams,