W. E. B. Du Bois
1868 – 1963 · United States · Philosophy, History, Literature
The Souls of Black Folk and the concept of double consciousness.
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Who shaped W. E. B. Du Bois, and who they shaped
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- Frederick Douglass
1818 – 1895 · Literature, Philosophy
Du Bois inherits and radicalises Douglass's abolitionist argument for full citizenship.
Passed the work to2
- Kwame Nkrumah
1909 – 1972 · Politics, Political Economy
Pan-Africanism moves from Du Bois's congresses to Nkrumah's independent Ghana.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968 · Peace, Philosophy
The double-consciousness diagnosis frames King's account of American moral division.
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