On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
But they faced, as all men since them have faced, that central paradox of the South,—the social separation of the races.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “But they faced, as all men since them have faced, that central paradox of the South,—the social separation of the races.”
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Du Bois identifies the persistent social separation of races as a fundamental and challenging paradox in the American South.
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