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Caption: Marker detail: Du Bois’ Writings
Additional Description: Du Bois' The Philadelphia Negro (1899), a pioneering sociological study, exposed the consequences of racial discrimination in the urban north. Among his historical works were The Suppression of the African Slave Trade (1896), his doctoral dissertation at Harvard, and Black Reconstruction (1935), which depicted the African American struggle for freedom in the Civil War and its aftermath. The 14 essays in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his best-known book, eloquently insisted on the necessity of Blacks fighting for higher education, voting rights, and the recognition of their contribution to America's identity as a nation.

Cover of The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Press

Cover of The Souls of Black Folk
Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Submitted: March 30, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p645845
File Size: 4.997 Megabytes

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