THE
GIFT of BLACK FOLK

The Negroes in the
Making of America

by
W. E. Burghardt DuBois
Ph. D. (Harv.)

Author of “The Souls of Black Folk,” “Darkwater,” etc.
Editor of The Crisis

Introduction by
EDWARD F. McSWEENEY, LL. D.

1924
THE STRATFORD CO., Publishers
Boston, Massachusetts

Copyright, 1924
By THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Printed in the United States of America

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