The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois, W. E. B. / Gröls-Verlag, Redaktion The Souls of Black Folk, published in 1903, is considered the first manifesto of the civil rights movement. The book is a critical appraisal of the situation of blacks in the U.S. South after the Civil War, which nominally abolished slavery but long replaced it with a modern system of economic dependence and apartheid. The Souls of Black Folk became the foundational text of the entire civil rights movement, the source of inspiration for Martin...