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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.   Bois, W. E. B. Du


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Excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr. Day Anthology · This quote is tagged Poverty and The Poor · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation · Help your friends discover QB

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, scholar, and socialist. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. David Levering Lewis, his acclaimed biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W.E.B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism-scholarship, propaganda, integration, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version

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