31-Jul
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
“Of Our Spiritual Strivings”
“Of the Dawn of Freedom”
“Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”
“Of the Meaning of Progress”
“Of the Wings of Atalanta”
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/408
80 pages
Excerpt:
South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills, peering out from the shadows of the past into the promise of the future. I have seen her in the morning, when the first flush of day had half-roused her; she lay gray and still on the crimson soil of Georgia; then the blue smoke began to curl from her chimneys, the tinkle of bell and scream of whistle broke the silence, the rattle and roar of busy life slowly gathered and swelled, until the seething whirl of the city seemed a strange thing in a sleepy land.