Garvey's actions got bolder as the 1920s progressed. Impressed by his own success, he began to promote himself as a “Black Moses” striving to lead his people back to their African homeland. The Black Star Line, in which his supporters ...
This series introduces children (approximate reading level grade four and up) to the lives of African Americans who have made their marks in the arts, law, politics, sports, science, business, and other fields.
E. Franklin Frazier agreed to be the chairman, and a number of individuals agreed to be honorary chairs, including Mary Church Terrell, Mary White Ovington, Mordecai Johnson, Alain Locke, and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of the Zionist ...
The essential writings of Du Bois have been selected and edited by David Levering Lewis, his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.
The publication of this updated edition follows more than one hundred celebrations recently marking the 100th anniversary of Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk.
A literate, meticulously researched biography of the complex scholar/activist DuBois, premier architect of the civil rights movement in the United States. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
... of Special Research. 1945 Publishes Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (New York: Harcourt, Brace). ... 1947 Publishes The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History (New York: Viking).
On Du Bois's unorthodoxy and their critique, see Andrew J. Douglas, W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2019). 71 Du Bois, “Prospect of a World without Race Conflict” ...
"These essays by the prolific historian and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois focus on some of the African-American author's lesser-known writings.
W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most significant American political thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume collects 24 of his essays and speeches on international themes, spanning the years 1900-1956.
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.
The publication of this updated edition follows more than one hundred celebrations recently marking the 100th anniversary of Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk.
Accessible introduction to the life and times of one of the toweringfigures of the American Civil Rights movement.
Lesser-known writings include "Strivings of the Negro People," "A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South," "The Talented Tenth," "Address to the Nation: The Niagara Movement Speech," "Evolution of the Race Problem," and more.