On Being Crazy
Written in 1907 by scholar, author, civil rights activist, and cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), the short story “On Being Crazy” provides a first-person encounter with racial discrimination in public accommodations. The story was written in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 1883 ruling in the Civil Rights Cases, when sanctioned and state-enforced segregation became … Read more »
