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How W. E. B. DuBois Won the United Daughters of the Confederacy Essay Contest

How W. E. B. DuBois Won the United Daughters of the Confederacy Essay Contest Not Forgotten b y b ru c e e . ba k e r Nearly a century ago W. E. B. DuBois (here) won an essay contest sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Columbia, South Carolina--or at least, DuBois's writing won the contest. Photograph by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918, courtesy of the Collections of the Library of Congress. Nearly a century ago W. E. B. DuBois won an essay contest sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Columbia, South Carolina--or at least, DuBois's writing won the contest. When someone sent DuBois a clipping of the winning essay, published in January 1912 along with a photograph of its "author"--University of South Carolina student Colin W. Covington--DuBois made it the basis of an editorial in The Crisis, the naacP's magazine he had edited since November 1910. Recalling that in 1901 he had written an article on the Freedmen's Bureau for the Atlantic Monthly, DuBois noted, "It caused no stir in the world, but the editor kept it carefully in his archives to gloat over now and then in the fastness of his study when the family had retired. Imagine, now," DuBois continued, "the editor's gratification http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

How W. E. B. DuBois Won the United Daughters of the Confederacy Essay Contest

Southern Cultures , Volume 15 (1) – Feb 21, 2009

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Not Forgotten b y b ru c e e . ba k e r Nearly a century ago W. E. B. DuBois (here) won an essay contest sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Columbia, South Carolina--or at least, DuBois's writing won the contest. Photograph by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918, courtesy of the Collections of the Library of Congress. Nearly a century ago W. E. B. DuBois won an essay contest sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Columbia, South Carolina--or at least, DuBois's writing won the contest. When someone sent DuBois a clipping of the winning essay, published in January 1912 along with a photograph of its "author"--University of South Carolina student Colin W. Covington--DuBois made it the basis of an editorial in The Crisis, the naacP's magazine he had edited since November 1910. Recalling that in 1901 he had written an article on the Freedmen's Bureau for the Atlantic Monthly, DuBois noted, "It caused no stir in the world, but the editor kept it carefully in his archives to gloat over now and then in the fastness of his study when the family had retired. Imagine, now," DuBois continued, "the editor's gratification

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Published: Feb 21, 2009

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