Charles Edward Russell (September 25, 1860 – April 23, 1941) was an American journalist and politician, and a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The author of a number of books of biography and social commentary, in 1928 he won a Pulitzer Prize for The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas.
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“I’m saying I’m an insect who dreamed he was a man and he loved it but the dream is over and the insect is awake.”
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