Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement.(Review)

The American Prospect | August 13, 2001| | Copyright

Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement, by Carol Polsgrove W.W. Norton, 296 pages, $26.95

W.E.B. DU BOIS'S STATEMENT that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line" has been quoted, cited, and paraphrased so often that, by the century's end, it had passed beyond bold prophecy into the safe realm of Great Thoughts. But has anybody pointed out the historical irony of Du Bois's famous line? Here was one of the century's most important American public intellectuals emphatically announcing the problem, which other ...

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