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W.E.B. Du Bois : biography of a race, 1868-1919 / David Levering Lewis.
Van Pelt - Class of 1979 Seminar Room (305) E185.97.D73 L48 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, David Levering, 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- History.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History.
- Civil rights movements.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 735 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- W.E.B DuBois : biography of a race, 1868-1919
- WEB DuBois : biography of a race, 1868-1919
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H. Holt, 1993.
- Summary:
- The author presents a biography of civil rights movement leader W.E.B. Du Bois, concentrating on the early and middle years of his long and intense career.
- Contents:
- Postlude to the future
- Mary Silvina's Great Barrington
- Berkshire prodigy
- The age of miracles : Fisk and Josie's world
- The age of miracles : "at but not of Harvard"
- Lehrjahre
- Wilberforce : book mentor, marriage
- From Philadelphia to Atlanta
- Social science, ambition, and Tuskegee
- Clashing temperaments
- The souls of Black folk
- Going over Niagara : Du Bois and Washington
- Atlanta : scholar behind the veil
- NAACP : the beginning
- Rise of the crisis, decline of the wizard
- Connections at home and abroad
- Crises at The Crisis
- The perpetual drama
- "The wounded world."
- Notes:
- "A John MacRae book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-708) and index.
- Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2001.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1994
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Nonfiction , Winner, 1994
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0805026215
- 9780805026214
- OCLC:
- 47998968
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