The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of the Black Folk

Even before the Civil Rights Movement was born to ban racial discrimination against African-Americans , the battle for pushing for equality has been an active cry when slavery cannot be tolerated any longer . Indeed the abolition of slavery in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln stopped the slavery expansion throughout the United States however discrimination itself continue to pose as a challenge until this modern time . In 1903 , African-American writer W .E .B . Dubois wrote Souls of the Black Folk which reflected that though discrimination can be wiped off

br by constitutional laws , the smallest detail of everyday life portrayed the misplaced role of the black people in American society

The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line (Du Bois , 1995 ,

. 41 . As the American society progressed from the benefits of the Industrial Revolution , the African-Americans were being left behind by the modernization . A huge number of the black population was under the poverty line with no access to education thus prohibiting them to participate in decent-paying jobs . Dubois used the elements of songs , poetry , and narratives to portray the struggles of being a human with dark skin color . From his personal experiences to real accounts of African-Americans experiencing the hardships of being black , Dubois expressed the journey of the black people towards freedom .Upon growing up , Dubois encountered a question where white people ask him , How does it feel to be a problem ' pertaining to the blacks as the growing concern...