Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. Here are his essential writings, spanning a long, restless life dedicated to the struggle for racial justice. "The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade" recounts how Americans tolerated the traffic in human beings until taught by bloody civil war the consequences of moral cowardice; the essays in "The Souls of Black Folk" celebrate the strength and pride of black America, pay tribute to black music and religion, assess the career of Booker T. Washington, remember the death of an infant son; the autobiography "Dusk of Dawn" moves from a Massachusetts boyhood to the founding of the N.A.A.C.P. and emerging Pan-African consciousness. Essays and speeches from 1890 to 1958--angry and satiric, proud and mournful--show Du Bois at his freshest and most trenchant.
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Spans two centuries, four wars, eleven presidencies and untold events in American history. This is the backdrop, and liberation is the message. -- Black Enterprise
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- The Souls of Black Folk (Modern Library) by W.E.B. Du Bois on 8 pages
- Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (Black Classics of Social Science) by W.E.B. Du Bois on 5 pages
- Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Penguin Classics) by Booker T. Washington on 4 pages
- The Declaration Of Independence by Sam Fink on 4 pages
- Memoirs of the American Revolution by John Drayton on page 50, page 52, and page 335
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- On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker (Lisa Drew Books) by A'Lelia Bundles in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance (The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940) by Cary D. Wintz in Front Matter
- The Critics and the Harlem Renaissance (The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940) by Cary D. Wintz in Front Matter
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