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W.E.B. Du Bois : a biography / Gerald Horne.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.D73 H68 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horne, Gerald.
- Series:
- Greenwood biographies
- 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 American authors--Biography.
- African American authors.
- African American intellectuals--Biography.
- African American intellectuals.
- African American civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- Intellectuals--United States--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- United States.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Pan-Africanism--History.
- Pan-Africanism.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- A founder of the NAACP, father of Pan-Africanism, and one of the most accomplished scholars and authors in American history, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois is a towering figure in American intellectual history. His extraordinary life of 95 years stretched from the Jim Crow era to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington, yet it was a life filled with controversy-over his socialist beliefs, sympathies for Joseph Stalin, membership in the American Communist Party, and ultimately, self-imposed exile in Ghana.
- Drawing on extensive research, Gerald Horne, a leading authority on Du Bois and a versatile and prolific scholar in his own right, offers a fully rounded portrait of this accomplished and controversial figure, including the often overlooked final decades, without which no portrait of Du Bois could be complete. W.E.B. Du Bois also highlights Du Bois's relationships with and influence upon other leading civil rights activists both during, and subsequent to, his extraordinarily long life, including Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Jesse Jackson. This revealing biography captures the full life of W.E.B. Du Bois-historian, sociologist, author, editor-a leader in the fight to bring African Americans more fully into the American landscape as well as a forceful proponent of them leaving America altogether and returning to Africa.
- Contents:
- Timeline of events in the life of W.E.B. Du Bois
- Beginnings
- Dr. Du Bois
- When titans collide
- Present at the creation
- A new path
- Conflicts
- Talented tenths
- Divorces
- Wars
- Turning point
- Trials
- Redemption.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780313349799
- 0313349797
- 9780313349805
- 0313349800
- OCLC:
- 422756773
- Publisher Number:
- 99936163237
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