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When beginning this assignment, since it was extra credit in my Western Civilization class, I planned to breeze through one of DuBois’s essays and churn out an essay that would satisfy the requirements of the project. I flipped through The Souls of Black Folk and immediately titles like “Of the Dawn of Freedom” and “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” caught my eye. ... Upon closer inspection, I noticed these essays were not about African Americans during their time of bondage but were about the struggle toward equality between white and black peoples after African Americans gained their freedom. I was unprepared to discover that, after reading DuBois’s work, I could comprehend what black oppression truly was after the Civil War. ... The prose was difficult to understand after a brief exposure to the material, but the ideas that DuBois touched on were profound and had a general feeling of optimistic despair. ... W.E.
Approximate Word count = 756
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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