The Souls of Black Folk addresses and analyzes how African-Americans have progressed over time, despite the many obstacles they have ran into. There is also talk about how they can progress in the future. The book introduces the terms “the veil”and “shiftless negroes”. W.E.B Du Bois pours out his empowerment of African-Americans as a whole onto each page. Questions: What is the subject of the book? The subject of the book is the about being black and what it means to be black in America. This book can be applied to any decade because the say treatment will go on forever and ever. How is the book organized? The book is organized into chapters and chapter talks about a different topic. Before each chapter there is a quote or song lyric along with the notes of the tune. The quote or lyric usually gives you an idea of what the chapter is going to be about. The topics explain the effects of the emancipation proclamation and the reconstruction. Discuss (do not just list) three things you learned from this book. …show more content…
It just blows my minds how similar the time periods out even though this was written more than a century ago.I learned surprisingly that many Native Americans weren't to fond of African-Americans. They didn't like the fact that African-Americans were living and sharing the same territory. Another thing I learned about the Freedman’s Bureau. I've never heard about it before my life and in the whole 1st Chapter of the book Du Bois went into deep detail of what it was and how it progressed then declined over