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Analysis: W. E. B. Du Bois: An Open Letter to Warren G. Harding.
In: Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2021-07-31, S. 3
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W. E. B. Du Bois, an activist with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), took the occasion of Warren G. Harding’s presidential inauguration to restate the case for civil rights for African Americans. Writing in the NAACP’s journal The Crisis, Du Bois chose to write this letter at this specific time for more than simply the occasion of Harding’s inauguration. African Americans had lived as slaves before the Civil War, which started sixty years before Du Bois’s letter was written. They had endured discriminatory laws in the decades since the Civil War. Yet they had continued to fight with other Americans in the Civil War, the Indian wars of the late nineteenth century, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. Despite African Americans’ service, discrimination and segregation were part of nearly every African American life. A new president, Du Bois hoped, would bring about the reforms for which he and other activists had been working for so many years.
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Analysis: W. E. B. Du Bois: An Open Letter to Warren G. Harding.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Danver, Steven L., PhD |
Zeitschrift: | Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2021-07-31, S. 3 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2021 |
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