W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
Description
This landmark biography traces the formative years of W.E.B. Du Bois, from his upbringing in Massachusetts through his emergence as one of the most influential Black intellectuals, scholars, and activists of the modern era. Set against Reconstruction, Jim Crow, industrialization, and the rise of Black political organizing, it explores Du Bois’s scholarship, teaching, writing, and evolving ideas about race, citizenship, education, and social justice. Drawing on extensive research, the narrative illuminates both the public achievements and private tensions that shaped his worldview and placed him at the center of America’s struggle over racial equality. Richly detailed and historically penetrating, it presents a compelling portrait of a visionary whose ideas helped define the twentieth-century fight for civil rights.
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paperback
Tandem Library
Published Jan 1, 2003
735 pages
ISBN: 9780613630863
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Details
First Published
1993
Language
eng
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