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Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey, would continue the work to end the legacies of slavery and eliminate all aspects of racism.

As Du Bois wrote, public education in the South was a Black idea.

Enter the new relevance of historical novels: Examples include Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” and Daniel Mason’s “North Woods,” which each tackle expansive themes across contentious historical periods.

Du Bois, there is a vivid emotional resonance that ties it all together.

Du Bois’ famous analysis of what he termed “the psychological wages of whiteness,” then explains why poor and working-class white Americans would support public policies that would cause them financial and economic and other harm: