W. E. B. Du Bois - Du Bois presented a paper in which he rejected Frederick Douglass's plea for black Americans to integrate into white society
Time: 1897
Place: U.S.
Details: While taking part in the American Negro Academy (ANA) in 1897, Du Bois presented a paper in which he rejected Frederick Douglass's plea for black Americans to integrate into white society. He wrote: "we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that from the very dawn of creation has slept, but half awakening in the dark forests of its African fatherland".
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