BIB_ID
195173
Accession number
MA 4648
Creator
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
Display Date
1940 Nov. 23.
Credit line
Purchase, Acquisitions Fund; 1987.
Description
1 item (1 p.)
Notes
Addressed to Birtwell at "University Extension / Columbia University / New York City." Birtwell taught English at Columbia University Extension, now the School of General Studies.
On the letterhead of Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture (founded by Du Bois in 1940).
On the letterhead of Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture (founded by Du Bois in 1940).
Summary
Responding to Birtwell's comparison between "the slavery of Negroes and that of women"; calling the comparison "unusually pat"; telling her about a White female friend who was experiencing discimination in the workplace; writing that he had thought "this sort of thing had disappeared from the modern world but alas it is still here although, as you say, not nearly as bad as a generation ago"; describing the reaction to his book (probably Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept) so far and saying that "it is a bit difficult to get anybody to read anything these days except the organized murder called war."
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