Du Bois held that only education and activism can lift the veil

Evidence

Du Bois indicated that the veil can only be lifted through education and activism. Thus, specifically, educators must educate themselves and young children—daily and explicitly addressing injustice, analyzing underlying causes, and engaging in activism alongside their students. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 281

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Racist dismissal of Black scholars helped push Du Bois from academia into activism — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 790; Du Bois moved from advocating persuasion to the antiracist path of civil disobedience — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 959

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