The Souls Of Black Folk Summary

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois is a book that discusses a lot of the issues within the United States about how black people are and have been treated. The book is organized in a way that allows each chapter to be a different essay written by Du Bois that analyzes the sociological aspect of the treatment of African Americans in the United States. These essays were written by W.E.B Du Bois in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Souls of Black Folk was published in 1903. This publishing was used by Du Bois to reinforce Booker T. Washington and to help push him to speak out against the mistreatment of blacks within the United States. Throughout this book report I will summarize a lot of what Du Boise had to talk about within his essays. I will do this by talking about …show more content…
The white man is from a privileged household and attends Princeton while the black man comes from next to nothing and attends an unknown school. Throughout school the black man has a hard time. He is asked to leave for a semester because of his behavior. Down the road the two meet at a presentation and the black man is asked to leave. The black man ends up returning home after graduation and his community is not a fan of his new personality. He lets everyone know that he believes that your religion or education doesn’t matter, but your personality does. He then opens up a school within his home community to help with their education. He is only allowed to teach them a dumbed down version of things that most white people would learn throughout school. He decides to teach them the way he was taught and in turn, the school was shut down. The white man ends up moving to New York after he graduates. He sexually assaults the black man’s sister and is then murdered by the black man. The black man then waits to be lynched for the crime he has