# Uncle Bird — The Souls of Black Folk character guide

> Uncle Bird in The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Uncle Bird Dowell

**First appearance:** 0009-vii-of-the-black-belt

## Who they are

An elderly Black man in the rural South, a figure of folk wisdom and endurance.

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