W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk is a collection of essays that elucidate the indignities Black Americans experienced from the time of slavery through the Jim Crow era.
William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois (1868-1963) was born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk University, the University of Berlin, and Harvard, where he was the first Black person to earn a doctorate. Du Bois was also one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
