W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919

W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919
Author: David Levering Lewis
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 752
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0805035680

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.


W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois
Author: David Levering Lewis
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 913
Release: 2009-08-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0805087699

The two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the impatience of the agitator. Now, David Levering Lewis has carved one volume out of his superlative two-volume biography of this monumental figure that set the standard for historical scholarship on this era. In his magisterial prose, Lewis chronicles Du Bois’s long and storied career, detailing the momentous contributions to our national character that still echo today. W.E.B. Du Bois is a 1993 and 2000 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction and the winner of the 1994 and 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.


W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919

W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919
Author: David Lewis
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages: 752
Release: 1994-12-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466841516

This monumental biography by David Levering Lewis--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how W.E.B. Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.


W. E. B. DuBois - Biography of a Race

W. E. B. DuBois - Biography of a Race
Author: David Levering Lewis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 735
Release: 1993
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780805026214

A clear portrait of a fifty-year period in the career of the premier architect of the civil rights movement in the U.S. and how Du Boois changed the way Americans think about themselves.


W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois
Author: David L. Lewis
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 715
Release: 2001-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780613708722

The second part of a biography of the African American author and scholar chronicles the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, Du Bois's battle for equality and justice for African Americans, and his self-exile in Ghana.


W. E. B. Dobois

W. E. B. Dobois
Author: David L. Lewis
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages: 735
Release: 1994-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780613630863

A definitive biography of the African-American author and scholar describes DuBois's formative years, the evolution of his philosophy, and his roles as a founder of the NAACP and architect of the American civil-rights movement


W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois
Author: Charisse Burden-Stelly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2019-09-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This book provides a new interpretation of the life of W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most important African American scholars and thinkers of the 20th century. This revealing biography captures the full life of W.E.B. Du Bois—historian, sociologist, author, editor, and a leader in the fight to bring African Americans more fully into the American landscape as well as a forceful proponent of their leaving America altogether and returning to Africa. Drawing on extensive research and including new primary documents, sidebars, and analysis, Gerald Horne and Charisse Burden-Stelly offer a portrait of this remarkable man, paying special attention to the often-overlooked radical decades at the end of Du Bois's life. The book also highlights Du Bois's relationships with and influence on civil rights activists, intellectuals, and freedom fighters, among them Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Louise Thompson Patterson, William Alphaeus Hunton, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The biography includes a selection of primary source documents, including personal letters, speeches, poems, and newspaper articles, that provide insight into Du Bois's life based on his own words and analysis.


The Autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois

The Autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1937306186

The present volume is quite different from the other two autobiographies by Du Bois not only because of its additional two-decade span, and the significantly altered outlook of its author, but also because in it—unlike the others—he seeks, as he writes, "to review my life as frankly and fully as I can." Of course, with the directness and honesty which so decisively characterized him, he reminds the reader of this book of the intense subjectivity that inevitably permeates autobiography; hence, he writes, he offers this account of his life as he understood it and as he—would like others to believe—it to have been. Certainly, while Dr. Du Bois was deep in his ninth decade when he died, longevity was the least remarkable feature of his life. As editor, author, lecturer, scholar, organizer, inspirer, and fighter, he was among the most consequential figures of the twentieth century. Necessarily, therefore, the full and final accounting of that life and his times becomes an indispensable volume.


W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois
Author: Shawn Leigh Alexander
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2015-07-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1442207426

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century, but none of his previous biographies have so practically and comprehensively introduced the man and his impact on American history as noted historian Shawn Alexander's W. E. B. Du Bois: An American Intellectual and Activist. Alexander tells Du Bois’ story in a clear and concise manner, exploring his racial strategy, civil rights activity, journalistic career, and his role as an international spokesman. The book also captures Du Bois’s life as an historian, sociologist, artist, propagandist, and peace activist, while providing space for the voices of his chief critics: Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Walter White, the Young Turks of the NAACP—not to mention the federal government’s characterization of his ever-radicalizing beliefs, particularly after World War II. Alexander’s analysis traces the development of Du Bois' thought over time, beginning with his formative years in New England and ending with his death in Ghana. Paying significantly more attention to the many pivotal and previously unexamined intellectual moments in his life, this biography illustrates the experiences that helped bend and mold the indispensable thinker that W.E.B. Du Bois became: the kind whose crowning achievement is his continued relevance in contemporary culture, from classrooms to curbsides.