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Texts the dominant story under-stocked. Filterable by region, era, and theme. Public-domain works are reproduced in full; in-copyright works are excerpted with source links.
W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903
Du Bois's 1903 essay arguing that the Black race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men — and that the education of the Black intelligentsia is the…
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Martin Luther King Jr., 1963
King's open letter from a Birmingham jail cell, April 16, 1963, written in response to eight white Alabama clergy who had urged him to slow down. The letter is now in th…
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