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By W. E. B. Du Bois
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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- The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 1903 · Of the Dawn of Freedom, p. 13
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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 opens the second chapter, "Of the Dawn of Freedom." The same idea appears in the book's Forethought.