The Gift of Black Folk

<p>2021 Reprint of the 1924 Edition.  Published in 1924 in response to growing racial tensions W. E. B. Du Bois' <em>The Gift of Black Folk </em>explores the contributions African Americans have made to American society detailing the importance of racial diversity to the United States. Writing for a general audience Du Bois employs a sweeping scope for his argument covering the European discovery of America to the twentieth century. </p><p>Contents: Black Explorers; Black Labor; Black Soldiers; The Emancipation of Democracy; The Reconstruction of Freedom; The Freedom of Womanhood; The American Folk Song; Negro Art and Literature; The Gift of the Spirit.</p>