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In a 1929 debate, this person humiliated Lothrop Stoddard for claiming that Stoddard’s system of “bi-racialism” did not mean discrimination. This person used letters written to Franklin Sanborn to write a 1909 biography of John Brown. (20[2])This person paired poetry (20[1])with unrelated sheet music to begin the chapters of a book that ends by describing (20[1])“sorrow songs.” This person employed Walter (*) White (10[1])at (10[1])his newspaper, The (10[1])Crisis. (10[7])This (10[2])person (10[1])wrote (10[1])“the problem of the 20th century is (10[2])the problem of the color line” (10[2])in the introduction to a collection that challenged Booker T. Washington’s (10[3])ideas (10[5])on (10[1])Black education. (10[1])For 10 points, The Souls of Black Folk was written by what African-American activist who founded the NAACP? (10[2])■END■ (10[2])

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