... followed reports about the increasing frequency of lynchings, calling each racially motivated killing "a scar" upon his soul. Through these and other encounters with racial hatred, as well as through his experience teaching in poor black communities in Tennessee during the summers, Du Bois began to develop ... his racial consciousness and the desire to help improve conditions for all blacks. Du Bois received his bachelor's degree from Fisk in 1888, and won a scholarship to attend Harvard ... in The Philadelphia Negro in 1899, the first sociological text on a black community published in...

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