This fictionalized account of the life of aviatrix Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first female African-American to receive a pilot's license, is told through a series of poems/eulogies presented at her funeral by those who knew her or knew of her adventures, celebrating Coleman's achievements while informing readers of the circumstances of her ...
Essential reading for students of African-American history, this collection represents three highly influential leaders. Washington and Douglass, both born into slavery, recount their rise from bondage to international recognition. Du Bois' landmark essays counsel a more aggressive approach to the civil rights movement.
"Up from Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois, and "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson--these three narratives, gathered together here, chronicle the remarkable evolution of African-American consciousness on both a personal and social level. Profound, intelligent, and insightful, ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
A gifted writer, scholar, sociologist, historian and activist, W.E.B. DuBois was one of the founding fathers of the US Civil Rights movement. In 1924, during the height of the country's Black Renaissance, he produced a remarkable history of the African-Americans - The Gift of Black Folk. This work represents one of the firsts insider's views of ...
An Inquiry into the Part which Africa Has Played in World History. A new edition of this classic work with essays, written after 1955, on the new African nations.
Set in Alabama and Washington, D.C., in the early part of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois's first novel weaves the themes of racial equality and understanding through the stark reality of prejudice and bias. Originally published in 1911 and conceived immediately after The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois turned to fiction to carry his message ...
A writer, educator, editor, historian, and sociologist, W.E.B. Du Bois was an early proponent of civil rights in the United States. He believed that the color line was the central problem of the 20th century. A controversial figure who was in many ways ahead of his time, Du Bois espoused racial and political beliefs of such variety and apparent ...
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. DuBois's sociological and historical research on African-American ...
Africa is at once the most romantic and the most tragic of continents. So begins The Negro, the first comprehensive history of African and African-derived people, from their early cultures through the period of the slave trade and into the twentieth century. Originally published in 1915, the book was acclaimed in its time, widely read, and deeply ...
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct in-depth studies of the Negro community in Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. ...
W E B Du Bois was a political and literary giant of the 20th century, publishing over twenty books and thousand of essays and articles throughout his life. He was one of the most imaginative, perceptive, and prolific founders of the sociological discipline. In addition to leading the Pan-African movement and being a leading activist for civil ...
Well-documented classic examines the South's plantation economy and its influence on the slave trade, the role of Northern merchants in financing the slave trade during the 19th century, and much more.
A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century. A reflective, moving account in which, with grace and clarity, Dr. Du Bois revised and incorporated his earlier works and added new sections.
The distinguished American civil rights leader first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems nearly 80 years ago in various periodicals. This volume has long inspired readers with its militant cry for reforms for black Americans.
An eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, that has stood the test of time as one of the most thoughtful and prophetic texts in American letters on the subject of race and racism. DuBois is particularly severe on the consequences of the moderate philosophies of Booker T. Washington, and advocates a bolder stance, including the ...
W. E. B. Du Bois, perhaps the foremost figure in African-American thought, writes on John Brown, the abolitionist who led the raid on Harper's Ferry and who was captured, tried, and hanged.
Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W.E.B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the black community in the United States. This volume collects his sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The 18 selections include five on Du Bois's conception of sociology and sociological research, ...
Undoubtedly the most influential black intellectual of the twentieth century and one of America's finest historians, W.E.B. DuBois knew that the liberation of the African American people required liberal education and not vocational training. He saw education as a process of teaching certain timeless values: moderation, an avoidance of luxury, a ...
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line . . . " - W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903This prophetic statement made by W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago is from The Souls of Black Folk. One hundred years later, Souls remains the most important treatment of African-American life and culture published in the Twentieth century ...
This reader reprints The Souls of Black Folk in its entirety along with all of the later work Darkwater. The collection includes a range of DuBois's writing over the course of his lifetime, showing the evolution of this thinking on major issues such as history, biography, segration and education, literature and art, and representative essays on ...
First published in 1920, this ground-breaking work by the pioneering African-American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) is not only original and probing in its brilliant ideas but also experimental in presentation, ranging from detailed socio-political analyses to lyrical and poetic presentations. After an opening autobiographical essay, Du Bois ...
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