Souls of Black Folks

In the book The Souls of Black Folks, author W.E.B. Dubois writes about the disparages in the treatments of southern blacks. Throughout the work Dubois discusses the various issues that require attention and the policies in the United States which require reformation in order to create equality in the races. African-Americans of the south deserved the right to vote, a decent and equal education, and above all to be treated equally in personal, legal, and in all governmental matters. In the first chapter, Dubois describes a metaphor which he carries throughout the rest of the text; that of the metaphor of the invisible veil. This veil, he claims, is the metaphorical divider between races, a visual analogue of the race barrier which also serves to symbolize the obstruction of laws and equality which is equated by the difference between appearances of black and white.

Although Dubois...
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