W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, And Gunnar Myrdal

Racism was a big deal in the 1900’s. There were many problems and conflicts in the world during this time. It was very bad in the South because of so much hatred between the white people and black people. Black people were treated terribly by the whites, and had to put up with many different facets of discrimination. The civil war and slavery had just ended in the previous century and there were still strong feelings in the South over the outcome. In this essay, I am going to explain the different view points on racism between W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Gunnar Myrdal. They each had different points of view on this problem. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (W.E.B. Dubois) was born on February 23, 1868, in Massachusetts. He was the first African American to get a Ph.D. and graduate from Harvard. DuBois started speaking to the public about equal rights for everyone. He was the author of ‘The Propaganda of History’ in 1935. In the book, he explained how people always talked about how stupid the black people were and how blacks were shamed. He had comments in the book in which people made about blacks. Racist people didn’t want anyone to think black people were intelligent at all. He tried showing everyone how stupid the

He was born on September 4, 1908 in Mississippi. Wright didn’t finish high school, he only made it to ninth grade. He was a very good writer, and when he was only 16 years old he was published in a Southern African-American newspaper. Wright wanted to write about the Jim Crow Laws, which were laws that enforced segregation in the South. He was used to these laws because he was having to abide by them. He approached race by telling different kinds of stories about how each race got along with one another. He made sure that he told stories about his experiences, because this is how all blacks were treated in the South. He was very blunt about how blacks were treated, and very bitter about