W. E. B. Dubois's The Propaganda Of History

“All Negroes were lazy, dishonest and extravagant.” written by W.E.B. Dubois (Dubois,1935). This line is just one of the things that was said about and to the blacks after they were freed from slavery. Dubois was not the only one to write about the treatment of blacks. Gunnar Myrdal wrote about the blacks treatment, while Richard Wright told his story and how he was treated. The treatment of blacks foreshadows a long list of works to be written. Dubois wrote The Propaganda of History to show others how the blacks were treated and his opinion on that. Since Dubois was black he had all rights to speak on how he felt about how they were treated. In his work he listed what most of the majority race group of people had said about blacks and he