{"id":85,"date":"2025-02-07T09:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/black-writers\/?post_type=item&#038;p=85"},"modified":"2025-02-13T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:40:46","slug":"the-souls-of-black-folk-essays-and-sketches-by-w-e-burghardt-du-bois","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/item\/the-souls-of-black-folk-essays-and-sketches-by-w-e-burghardt-du-bois\/","title":{"rendered":"The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches \/ by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois<br>A.C. McClurg &amp; Co., 1903<br>Southern Civilization Collection<br>Vanderbilt University Special Collections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The Souls of Black Folk<\/em><\/strong> by W.E.B. Du Bois is a landmark work in African American literature and sociology. This 1903 collection of essays that explore the experiences, struggles, and aspirations of African Americans in the post-Reconstruction era.&nbsp; Du Bois highlights the economic, political, and cultural barriers preventing African Americans from achieving their potential and stresses that full equality and social justice are essential for true progress.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":61,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"section":[2],"class_list":["post-85","item","type-item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-non-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/85\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}