Du Bois moved from advocating persuasion to the antiracist path of civil disobedience

Evidence

Regardless of the fact that in his later years Dr. Du Bois chose another path,” Wilkins intoned, “it is incontrovertible that at the dawn of the twentieth century his was the voice calling you to gather here today in this cause.” The well-trained journalist at the helm of the NAACP reported the truth. Indeed, the younger Du Bois had called for such a gathering, hoping it would persuade and endear millions to the lowly souls of Black folk. And yes, the older Du Bois had chosen another path-the antiracist path less traveled-toward forcing millions to accept the equal souls of Black folk. It was the path of civil disobedience that the young marchers in the SNCC and CORE had desired for the March on Washington, a path a young woman from Birmingham’s Dynamite Hill was already marching upon and would never leave. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 959

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s goal of placing arguments into Kendi’s three-way scheme — Du Bois embodies the shift from assimilationist persuasion to antiracist forcing. — connects to: Du Bois held that only education and activism can lift the veil — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 281