W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was a writer, civil rights activist, scholar, and editor who brought fundamental changes to American race relations through his writings, speeches, and public debates.
'The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,' writes Du Bois, in one of the most prophetic works in all of American literature. First published in 1903, this collection of fifteen essays dared to describe the racism that prevail...[SEE MORE]