Du Bois, W. E. B. This work, by one of the champions of the early civil rights movement in the U.S., pulls together the various elements of African history and highlights the distinctive and complex cultures existing in Africa before the slave trade, citing evidence of architectural development, iron working, writing, and numerous other cultural advances. This work, by one of the champions of the early civil rights movement in the U.S., pulls together the various elements of African history…
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois · Original publisher: Henry Holt and Company (1915)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1915; full text freely available at Project Gutenberg. The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `8116-the-negro.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).