Chike Jeffers on Douglass and Du Bois
About this episode
Chike Jeffers discusses the contributions of Frederick Douglass and W.E.B Du Bois to the civil rights movement.
Frederick Douglass and W.E.B Du Bois were two prominent African-Americans who made a significant impact on the civil rights movement in the US. Douglass is particularly associated with the 19 th Century abolitionism, and Du Bois with 20 th C. pan-Africanism. In this interview Chike Jeffers puts them in their context and introduces some of their key ideas. This episode was supported by the Ideas Workshop, part of the Open Society Foundations.
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