Tag: 1956
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W.E.B. Du Bois: I Won’t Vote
20 October 1956 – W.E.B. Du Bois published in The Nation Why he won’t be voting in 1956: Since I was twenty-one in 1889, I have in theory followed the voting plan strongly advocated by Sidney Lens in The Nation of August 4, i.e., voting for a third party even when its chances were hopeless,…