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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

1897
U.S.

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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