This person wrote "One fact and one alone explains the attitude of most recent writers toward Reconstruction; they cannot conceive of Negroes as men".
This person wrote "One fact and one alone explains the attitude of most recent writers toward Reconstruction; they cannot conceive of Negroes as men". That quote appears in his 1935 work Black Reconstruction in America. One of his works states that people who meet him make statements such as "I fought at Mechanicsville" rather than directly asking him, "How does it feel to be a problem?". His desire to develop an elite group of African Americans was embodied in his phrase "the Talented Tenth", and near the end of his life he worked on an Encyclopedia Africana in Ghana. Name this sociologist who wrote The Souls of Black Folk and whose ideas were often contrasted with the Atlanta Compromise pushed by Booker T. Washington.
This person wrote "One fact and one alone explains the attitude of most recent writers toward Reconstruction; they cannot conceive of Negroes as men".
W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) {Du Bois} [doo BOYSS]