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Summary Of Behind The Veil By Booker T. Dubois

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That is where the double consciousness comes into play. In the book double consciousness means how one part of the black man belongs to society and the other part, which is his true self, stays hidden (behind the veil). In the story, Du Bois lets the reader see behind the Veil where all of his pains, dreams, and hopes hide. In the beginning of the book, Du Bois highlights the events that followed the Civil War such as the Freedmen’s Bureau’s act in the Reconstruction Era and said the best work done by them was opening schools for black children. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington’s relationship was kind of rough. Booker T. Washington, who was the most powerful black leader at the time, believed that the only way to fix society’s look at people
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