W. E. B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk


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The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contain…

The Quest of the Silver Fleece


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The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy …

The Negro Problem


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This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …

The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1


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This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, an…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 12. December 1896


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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the December Number. It includes the following articles: The Geography of the Sout…

John Brown


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This is a moving and deeply felt biography of abolitionist John Brown, which defends its subject against the popular notion of him as a delu…

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, Vol…


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The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slav…

The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children


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From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043


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Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of "people of color&…

Short Science Fiction Collection 091


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Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study


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In November, 1897, I submitted to the American Academy of Political and Social Science a plan for the study of Negro problems. This work is …

Short Poetry Collection 189


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This is a collection of 41 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2019.

The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America


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This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its th…

Dark Princess


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This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…

The Negro


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Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. 1, No. 1


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The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerc…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 2


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The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 3


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The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…