Eseoghene Okonedo, "Willam Edward Burghardt Du Bois: Recapturing the Black Soul ".
Paper presented at the New Socialist Approaches to History seminar, Institute of Historical Research, November 22nd, 2004
This essay is an exploration into WEB Du Bois’s Sociological Theory on how to resolve Black Social Problems.
Topics:
- The Effects of the History of Slavery on Black Society and the Black Psyche
- The Influence of science and the relevance of G. Hegel and K. Marx in Du Bois Social Theory
- W.E.B. Du Bois versus Booker T. Washington on the issue of education. Assimilate or Separate?
- Du Bois' involvement with the ‘Niagara Movement’ and the ‘National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People’, and their attempts to gain social and economic equality for black society
- The different strategies for social improvement of Martin Luther King Jnr and Malcom X in the Civil Rights Movement (1960’s)