First published in 1979, this landmark study of Harlem's brief shining moment of glory has been reissued with a new preface in which David Levering Lewis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "W.E.B. Du Bois", reconsiders the Harlem Renaissance in light of recent criticism surrounding the exploitation of the black community.
Now in paperback, this Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and National Book Award Finalist presents the life story of the towering and controversial civil rights leader, focusing on a crucial 50 year period in his--and the nation's--life. "An engrossing masterpiece".--Washington Post Book World.
This is the second volume of David Levering Lewis's magisterial biography of Du Bois. It examines the second part of his long life, including his break with and later reconciliation with the NAACP, the development of his socialist views, his role in American political life, and his fluctuating reputation and influence. It covers the years of the ...
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s was an unparalleled artistic movement that produced a staggering amount of great African-American writing. This comprehensive anthology brings together fiction, poetry, and essays by 45 of the best writers of the period. The roster includes not only the most celebrated, such as Zora Neale Hurston, ...
At the beginning of the eighth century, the Arabs brought a revolution in power, religion and culture to Dark Ages Europe. David Levering Lewis' panoramic history begins with the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and the creation of Muslim Spain. Five centuries of engagement between the Muslim ...
In the 1920s, Harlem was "the capital of Black America" and home to an epochal African-American cultural flowering called the Harlem Renaissance. This book presents the work of the most important visual artists of the day, including Meta Warrick Fuller, Aaron Douglas and Palmer Hayden.
A founder of the NAACP, a brilliant scholar and writer, Du Bois was a towering and controversial personality--a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the agitator's impatience. This book tracks the evolution of Du Bois' thinking and his tireless battles against racism. Photo inserts.
Selected by W.E.B Du Bois and published together for the first time, a collection of 150 rare and beautiful photographs of African Americans out of slavery and beyond, with essays by Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis and the MacAthur fellow, African American photo historian Deborah Willis.
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 ...
The States and the Nation Series, of which this volume is a part, is designed to assist the American people in a serious look at the ideals they have espoused and the experiences they have undergone in the history of the nation. The content of every volume represents the scholarship, experience, and opinions of its author. The costs of writing and ...
The fortress of Fashoda is on an obscure junction of the Nile, but from 1870 onwards, because of its strategic position and the rise of European colonialism, it became the subject of conflict between the rival Western powers of Britain, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy. This is an account of those struggles based largely on unpublished documents ...
Distinguished by his hawk-like gaze and shock of silver hair, his forceful oratory and fierce advocacy, Fredrick L McGhee was Minnesota's first African American attorney and an intelligent, tireless civil rights organiser. He moved onto the national stage when he helped found the Niagara Movement. Despite McGhee's crucial role in early civil ...
The Dreyfus Affair began with the persecution of Alfred Dreyfus, the French Army's most promising Jewish offcer, who was falsely accused of passing military secrets to Germany. It ended as the cause celebre of the 19th century. Here is a stunning re-creation of this terrible act of injustice, brilliantly told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
The milestones for blacks in twentieth-century America--the Harlem Renaissance, the struggle for equal education, and the civil rights movement--would have been inconceivable without the contributions of one important but often overlooked figure, Charles S. Johnson (1893-1956). This compelling biography demonstrates the scope of his achievements, ...
"Along the Color Line" is a diverse collection of essays by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, first published more than a quarter of a century ago. This informed study addresses such topics as black nationalism, nonviolent action, the changing patterns of interracial violence in the twentieth ...
The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its accomplishments and shortcomings. Its ...
A celebration of Detroit car photographers who created new ways of shooting and seeing automobiles from the 1950s onwards. The book traces the development of the Detroit School of Automotive Photography, focusing on major photographers such as Walter Farynk and Dennis Gripentrog and their work.
For a quarter of a century, David L. Lewis has contributed his "Ford Country" column to Cars & Parts magazine. In the process, he has established himself as the world's leading authority on Ford -- the family, the company, and the automobiles. This hardbound edition is the first volume to feature Lewis' columns as they have appeared through the ...
David Levering Lewis is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University and was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 received the Bancroft, Parkman, and Pulitzer Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.
The story of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) in 1909. Viewed through the life of co-founder Mary White Ovington, a seminal feminist and social activist, it focuses on her relationship with pioneering black leaders including Walter White, James Weldon Johnson, and Mary Church Terell. Providing ...
W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century, published "Darkwater" -- a powerful collection of essays, verse and fiction -- in 1920, two decades after his most famous book, "The Souls of Black Folk." Throughout his long life and extraordinary career as a scholar, activist, writer and educator, Du Bois's body ...
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