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By W. E. B. Du Bois
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.
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- The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 1903 · Of Our Spiritual Strivings, p. 4
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1903 first edition, Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.)
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From W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903). This is the text of the first edition. It is in the first chapter, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings."