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Letter from Ira de Augustine Reid to W. E. B. Du Bois

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Thanking him for and complimenting him on his Fisk University commencement address; describing the "awful stew" of European politics and noting, "England has never seemed so much the class-structured state that it is"; describing the attitudes and living conditions of the "large African and half-caste" populations in England and Wales; relaying Paul Robeson's comparable dismay; and describing his current studies, pursuits, and future plans.
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All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.Contact host institution for more information.
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  1. Blacks
  2. Robeson, Paul 1898 1976

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