The Souls of Black Folk

Question 1

Dougherty County, Georgia, says the author, was the birthplace of the famed “Blackbelt,” where the cotton boom led to a boom in slavery in the early nineteenth century.

True

At Albany, in the heart of the Black Belt, we stop. Two hundred miles south of Atlanta, two hundred miles west of the Atlantic, and one hundred miles north of the Great Gulf lies Dougherty County, with ten thousand Negroes and two thousand...

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Question 2

In African American music, the author writes, one hears a sentiment of contentment and of having found a home.

False

I know little of music and can say nothing in technical phrase, but I know something of men, and knowing them, I know that these songs are the articulate message of the slave to the world. They tell us in these eager days that life was...

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Question 3

The civic training of voters for republican government has included blacks in the South, especially since it has industrialized.

False

And finally, now, to-day, when we are awakening to the fact that the perpetuity of republican institutions on this continent depends on the purification of the ballot, the civic training of voters, and the raising of voting to the plane of a...

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