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W. E. B. Du Bois' collection of brilliant socio-economic / political essays, 🗽🙏🏿“The Souls of Black Folk”, remains a seminal work in American literature. 🇺🇸 His 1935 magnum opus, “Black Reconstruction in America”, challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that Blacks were responsible for the failures of Reconstruction post American Civil War. Borrowing a phrase from the great Frederick Douglass, Du Bois popularized use of the term “color line” to represent the injustice of the “separate but equal”. This doctrine was still prevalent in many parts of American social and political life, particularly the Deep South. He opens “The Souls of Black Folk” with the central thesis of much of his life's work: “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.“ Incredibly, The United States' Civil Rights Act was enacted a year after his death - a testament to Du Bois’ powerful leadership and visionary work towards equality, freedom, and so
