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"Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached"

- C. L. R. James

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This quote is written / told by C. L. R. James between January 4, 1901 and May 19, 1989. He/she was a famous Journalist from Trinidad and Tobago. The author also have 29 other quotes.

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