nonviolent forms of protest. Perhaps the most remarkable individual involved in the black resistance movement at the time of WWI was WEB Du Bois. Du Bois was a college-educated African American man who wrote works of literature such as the book titled Souls of Black Folk and expressed many of the issues that were experienced by blacks during the early 1900s. Du Bois, in his aforementioned book, discussed a phenomenon known as double consciousness, which stated that African Americans have to stop seeing
particularly with regards to race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability and social class. The concept of privilege dates back to 1910 when American sociologist and historian W. E. B. Du Bois published the essay The Souls of White Folks, in which he wrote that although African Americans were observant about white Americans and conscious of racial discrimination, white Americans did not think much about African Americans, nor about the effects of racial discrimination. In 1935, Du Bois wrote about what
Her dream is to become a doctor someday when she gets out of college. Beneatha also wants to save her race from ignorant individuals. Walter is Mama’s oldest son and child. His dreams are to be wealthy and provide for his family. His personal dream is to open up a liquor store with his part of the money coming in from his dead father’s insurance. In the