Which african-american author and statesman did w.

e. b. du bois criticize in the souls of black folk (1907) ?

Booker T. Washington. The disagreement between Du Bois and Washington on how to react to Plessy vs Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruling which established the concept of "separate but equal" services and laws for black and white Americans, set the terms for twentieth-century challenges to institutionalized racism.