In the early 1900s, the most influential black leader in the United States was educator and former slave Booker T. Washington, the principal of Tuskegee Institute. Read a biography on Washington at the Library of Congress African American Pamphlets Home Page. (The Library of Congress is also the home of the African-American Mosaic Exhibition).
Although many African-Americans agreed with Washington's philosophy that blacks should strive for economic advancement before political and social equality, some did not. One of Washington's chief critics was sociologist and historian W.E.B. Du Bois of Atlanta University. The full text of Du Bois's famous 1903 work "The Souls of Black Folk" is available at Bartleby's Great Books Online.
Source: Library Spot
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"The Souls of Black Fold" by W.E.B. Du Bois is a definite must read. It is so inspiring and is so relevent to todays society. Another good read is Black Wallstreet: A Lost Dream (which also has a documentary), and Black Wallstreet: A Black Holocaust in America.
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