Summary Of The Coming Of John Du Dubois

Looking at the past of blacks and comparing it to today, there is not that much of a difference. Du Bois, as a historian, uses this knowledge and teaches the African American experience through his many essays and books. He takes stories from his childhood and also creates stories that have a symbolic underlining. In his book, The Souls of Black Folk, he uses a collective of essays to educate blacks, and give them the power to overcome the “the veil” of society. Du Bois uses education as a way to further the black community into understand how modern times are not different than past times, and an in order to grow, society needs to be educated on the truth rather than the what is expected.
In Du Bois’ essay, “Of the Dawn of Freedom”, he sets
The main focus was the role of the negro, and how others view and treat the negro. In speaking of the Negro education, Du Bois says: “For the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro” (56). Du Bois utilizes the degree of the “veil” to emphasize the struggle for blacks to succeed. As a result, he depicts the white majority of society as an obstacle that keeps blacks from being “educated”, and having the power that they need to rise up in the world. In another one of Du Bois’ essay, “Of the Coming of John”, there two characters with the same name and both are educated, but one is white and black. He uses these two men to demonstrate how the veil will always be there. After being asked to leave from his school, black John decides to live his life devoted to his education. In doing this he has this realization: “He grew slowly to feel almost for the first time the Veil that lay between him and the white world; he first noticed
In recent times, police brutality is at it’s all time high. The reason behind this is because of the fear of black men. From reading Du Bois book, it can said that this fear dates back to the time of when Africans were being shipped to America as slaves. In each generation, the fear might shift, but it is still there. The childhood of a black child growing up is different than from a white child. They both could be told to be careful of walking down the street, but the difference is that the white child will be told because it might be dangerous and the black child is told because of the color of their skin. Skin color always plays a major role in the way that blacks live through life. When it comes to education, there is much more emphasis on getting an education for blacks because of the past the Du Bois illustrated in his book. Being black in America means that in order to succeed, and break away from the stereotypes of blacks you have to be educated. This was the same for past blacks also. In “Of the Training of Black Men” essay, Du Bois states that the only way for a negro to transform is if they are