PROPAGATION OF HISTORY AND FAITH DuBois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 . (1935; New York: The Free Press, 1998). Dr. DuBois knew what was problematic about his revisionist history in Black Reconstruction . He made his intentions clear in his note "To The Reader" (December 1934). His ideal audience consisted of people who believed a black person in America "and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings…" DuBois was not trying to convince those who regarded " the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization…" Indeed, the Negro, in my mind at least, is the chief architect of civilization. Is it only a matter of accident that Carter G. Woodson's The Mis-Education of the Negro was published two years before Black Reconstruction ? No. It wasn't an accide...
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