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The Damnation of Women, ca. 1920
12019-05-05T14:52:51-07:00Ateanna Uriri152ac9ea5711f93955a4ae7062c26fc2e5b8f958333621Typed portion of "The Damnation of Women" chapter from Darkwater.plain2019-05-05T14:52:51-07:00Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. The damnation of women, ca. 1920. W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries1920Ateanna Uriri152ac9ea5711f93955a4ae7062c26fc2e5b8f958
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12019-04-07T00:38:40-07:00W. E. B. Du Bois11File no. 100-99729image_header2019-05-05T14:59:52-07:00 Full name: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Also known as: W. E. B. Du Bois, William E.B. Du Bois
Notable works: The Souls of Black Folk (1903); "The Talented Tenth", second chapter of The Negro Problem (1903); The Crisis [author and editor] (1910-1933); Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (1920); Dark Princess: A Romance (1928); Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire." — The Damnation of Women, ca. 1920
Associations: Communist Party, American Labor Party, World Peace Appeal, Progressive Party, Voice of Freedom Committee
Honors and awards: awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP (1920), inducted into the Fisk University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and also received an honorary degree (1958), awarded International Lenin Peace Prize (1959), appointed Honorary Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2012)
