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    During the late 1800s‚ America was growing into a strong nation. The issue of slavery was a controversial topic among the framers of the Union. The northern states opposed slavery while the southern states pushed to expand it through the western territory. The Emancipation Proclamation declared freedom for the men of the south. In 1868‚ W.E.B. DuBois was born in the small community of Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts (Biographay.com). As an African-American child in a predominately Caucasian town

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    William Edward Burghardt commonly know as W.E.B Du Bois was a African American sociologist from Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts. Du Bois came in to age in the 1890s‚ roughly around the Progressive era. W.E.B. Du Bois was not only a African American sociologist‚ but also a Pan-Africanist‚ author‚ and a civil rights activist who expressed his ideas and activism freely through his studies and literature which include‚The Souls of Black Folk‚ The Negro‚ Black Reconstruction‚ The Philadelphia Negro‚ and

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    Fisk University‚ founded for the children of emancipated slaves‚ developed into a haven for African Americans to learn without any “rac[ial] considerations” taken place (“Song” 194). W.E.B. Du Bois attended this University and developed and awareness of the crisis of the “color line” within black and white societies‚ both races believing that the lighter the skin‚ the better (194). Du Bois himself‚ born a light-skinned black man‚ realized the importance of accepting his race as a whole and disregarding

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    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois‚ commonly known as W.E.B Du Bois‚ was a famous historian‚ essayist‚ and sociologist. In 1868‚ Du Bois was born February 23rd in Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts. His contributions to the world through a sociological standpoint were: “his role as one of the early sociological pioneers‚ sociologist of race‚ and as a scholar- activist” ( sociology website ) Du Bois was a very intelligent man that attended college at Fisk. In 1888‚ Du bois earned his bachelor’s degree

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    W. E. B. Du Bois introduced a term called Double Consciousness with the purpose of defining a person whose individuality is divided into multiple facets. “Double Consciousness” reveals the divisions within American society‚ and functions as a theoretical instrument that allows for a full understanding of those separations. Du Bois coined the term in 1897‚ in his article entitled Strivings of the Negro People‚ published in the Atlantic Monthly. Later‚ the article was slightly revised‚ to be republished

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    was widely praised by both blacks and whites‚ although it was not long before critics of Washington’s position emerged to challenge his leadership. Early complaints about Washington’s accommodation to the white South came from the black scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and others. But until he died in 1915‚ Washington was the most influential black leader in America‚ and the most famous black celebrity in the country‚ an adviser to presidents and representative to European heads of state. His autobiography

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    first-person struggles of a black man trying to make it through a day‚ while being questioned‚ and criticized by the white society. One encounter in the story begins with the man walking into a restaurant and being asked "do you wish to force your company on those who do not want you?” to which the black man responded "No‚ said I‚ I wish to eat" (Du Bois 1). The story’s dialogue follows this idea as with every encounter‚ the man is asked ’ are you aware that this is social equality’. The point of the

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    W.E.B Du Bois Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation 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

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    W.E.B. DuBois expressed his feeling of being a problem for being Black. This problem has become a struggle for DuBois to find himself fit in with his community. Because of this problem‚ DuBois believe that he has a double consciousness. According to DuBois‚ a double consciousness means he has to look at one’s self through the eyes of others to understand people’s perspective toward race. By using his double consciousness‚ DuBois can see that color line that has been hidden in the community and among

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    William Edward Burghardt famously recognized as W.E.B Dubois was born on February 23‚ 1868 in Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts. W.E.B Dubois was famously recognized as an American sociologist‚ historian‚ civil rights activist‚ Pan-Africanist‚ author and editor. W.E.B Dubois was born to parents Alfred Dubois and Mary Silvina Du Bois who was apart of a diminutive group of released blacks. During Dubois’ early childhood‚ his parents got divorced in 1870 when W.E.B was two years of age and he lived with

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