Dubois's The Souls of Black Fo

The Negro has become a Neighbor… WEB DuBois’s Souls of Black folk harbors the authors beliefs and ideas drawn from Reconstruction and the social contempt that faced the black race. His opinions of reconstruction and the steps needed to advance the black race into “harvest wonderful, a world without a color-line…” are discussed in the reading below (iii). DuBois’s views on the Freedmen’s Bureau show he welcomed the advancements and goals that …

…and the Freedman’s Bureau were a large help to the black race and its advancement in the South, the latter was guided as a temporary solution to the plight of the Negro. (24) Only by following the steps outlined and gaining an understanding of what they must achieve to lift their kinsmen above bigotry could the Negro fully emancipate himself and wander free among the people that had oppressed his kind for so many generations.