The black man brings his gifts [fragment]

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 · [ca. 1906]

Fragments of draft of this story of the race relations and social perceptions influencing the founding of a small Indiana town's Women's Club Federation, and subsequent analysis of the multicultural melting-pot origins of most "American" arts and traditions, concluding with the finding that "laborers and drudges and slaves" are the ones "who made this big country." See mums312-b236-i043 for full rendering.