On April 27, 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois published The Souls of Black Folk, a groundbreaking collection of essays that reshaped the national dialogue on race, freedom, and the African American experience. The book introduced key concepts such as “double consciousness” and directly challenged Booker T. Washington’s accommodationist stance. Du Bois argued that true equality could not come through vocational training alone—it required political power, civil rights, and higher education. The work became a cornerstone of Black intellectual tradition and marked a turning point in the fight for civil rights in the 20th century.
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