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Books by
and about W.E.B. Du Bois
The
Suppression of the African
Slave Trade (1896) /
The
Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899) /
The
Souls of Black Folk:
Essays and Sketches
(1903) /
John
Brown (1909) /
The
Quest of the Silver Fleece
(1911) /
Darkwater:
Voices Within the Veil
(1920)
Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the
Making
of America (1924) /
Dark Princess: A Romance
(1928) /
Black Reconstruction in America
(1935) /
Black Folk, Then and Now
(1939)
Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace
(1945) /
The World and Africa: An Inquiry
(1947) /
In Battle for Peace
(1952)
A Trilogy:
The Ordeal of Monsart
(1957)
Monsart Builds
a School (1959)
Worlds of Color (1961)
/
An ABC of Color:
Selections (1963)
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an
Autobiography of a Race Concept
The
Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing
My Life from the Last
Decade of Its First
Century
(1968)
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Shirley Graham Du Bois,
His Day Is Marching On: A Memoir of
W.E. B. Du Bois (1971)
Leslie Alexander Lacy.
The Life of W.E.B. Du Bois:
Cheer the Lonesome Traveler (1970)
Du
Bois on Reform: Periodical-based
Leadership for African Americans.
Edited and Introduced
by Brian Johnson. New York Altamira Press (A Division of Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), 2005
David Levering Lewis,
W.E.B. Dubois: Biography of a Race * * *
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Bio-Sketch
W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois—born on
February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts,
and and died August 27, 1963, on the eve of the March On
Washington, in Accra, Ghana, shortly after becoming a
Ghanaian citizen—was one of the greatest of America’s
scholars and political activists. He was the first
African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard
University in 1896. Between 1897 and 1914 Dubois
conducted numerous studies of black society in America,
publishing 16 research papers. He began his
investigations believing that social science could
provide answers to race problems.
Gradually he concluded that in a climate of virulent
racism, social change could only be accomplished by
agitation and protest. Du Bois was one of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or
NAACP, in 1909. He served as its director of research
and editor of its magazine, Crisis, until 1934.
He supported alternately integration and equal rights
for everyone regardless of race as well as a racial
nationalism, not unlike his arch-rival Booker T.
Washington, that is, by the 1930s he believed it was a
that necessity
African Americans
developed black institutions.
Initially, Du Bois believed
capitalism might accommodate African Americans as
citizens. Realizing the depth of America’s racial
oppression, he moved steadily toward socialist ideas and
remained sympathetic to Marxism throughout his life.
Hounded by the federal government with restrictions on
foreign travel, in 1961, Du Bois became completely
disillusioned with the United States and moved to Ghana,
joined the Communist Party, and a year later renounced
his American Citizenship.
By the time he died, in 1963, he had written 17 books,
edited four journals and played a key role in reshaping
black-white relations in America.
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