For them, perhaps, some one will some day lift the Veil,—will come tenderly and cheerily into those sad little lives and brush the brooding hate away, just as Beriah Green strode in upon the life of Alexander Crummell.
In The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois expresses a hopeful vision for the future, where the "Veil" of racial division might be lifted for Black children, referencing a historical figure.
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