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Dusk of Dawn

Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept is a 1940 autobiographical text by W. E. B. Du Bois that examines Du Bois's life and family history in the context of contemporaneous developments in race relations.


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“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”

W.E.B. Du Bois book Dusk of Dawn

The Study of the Negro Problems, paragraph 50, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. XI (January 1898) http://www.webdubois.org/dbStudyofnprob.html <br class="br">Source: Dusk of Dawn

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