W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was an African-American sociologist, activist and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was the first African American to gain a doctorate at Harvard. He argued that capitalism was one of the causes of racism and was an early advocate of nuclear disarmament. He wrote movingly and passionately in his writings about the tension between the U.S. ideals of freedom and the injustice that so often befell non-whites. He wrote:
My country tis of thee,
Late land of slavery,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my father’s pride
Slept where my mother died,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring!
The words on this tea towel come from his 1905 speech at the founding of the Niagara Movement calling for equal rights.
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W.E.B. Dubois tea towel
The W.E.B. Du Bois alternative American flag tea towel was colorful, beautiful, and painfully accurate. As a lifetime "Yank" who loves his country and teaches history, the truth of the words embodied on the face of this tea towel/flag are more true today then they were a century ago when first uttered by the great African-American thinker and writer W.E.B. Du Bois. Use it as a towel, or as I will do, have it on your kitchen wall.
