Question

What does Du Bois mean by 'the veil'?

Answer 1

"The Veil" is one of the central pieces in Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk." Lauded in American history and sociology for its symbolic importance, the veil is a predominant idea throughout the book. This veil separated black and white people and made it so that only African-Americans existed within the veil. It was from within this veil that the black population (the "Negroes") experienced oppression. While it was possible for the Negroes to understand life from within the veil and also outside of it, it was not possible for white people to fully understand the oppression experienced by the black race.

Answer 2

Explanation:

The veil is a head covering, veil a garment that covers the head and face. Du Bois was sociologist and activist. Then he founding member of the NAACP that he edited its magazine, the Crisis. Against Booker T. Washington's accommodations approach. He really unhappy with the slow progress toward equality.

Du Bois write The Souls of Black Folk (1903), in which Du Bois said:

• Accommodation would only reinforce segregation and discrimination.
• Segregation would only end if African Americans took action to end it.
• This kind of activism shaped the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.