Of W. E. B. Du Bois's 'Of The Coming Of John'

W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Of the Coming of John” from The Souls of Black Folk. (1903) In “Of the Coming of John from, The Souls of Black Folk”, by W. E. B. Du Bois’s he talks about the years immediately following the civil war. How black people have a since of double consciousness which means that they are always looking at their selves through the eyes of other people. The story talked about the failures and accomplishments of the Freedmen's Bureau's role in Reconstruction. W. E. B. Du Bois’s talks a lot about education in his story and about a boy named John who gets an education but is so ridiculed by racism. In the story the “Of the Coming of John”, A black man named John goes to college and comes back to his town where he tries to open up