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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963

David Levering Lewis

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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963

The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this work chronicles the life of W.E.B. Du Bois, a historian, novelist, editor, sociologist, founder of the NAACP, advocate of women's rights, and the premier architect of the Civil Rights movement. This second volume begins with the triumphal return from WWI of African American veterans to the shattering reality of racism and lynching even as America discovers the New Negro of literature and art. In stunning detail, Lewis chronicles the little-known political agenda behind the Harlem Renaissance and Du Bois's relentless fight for equality and justice, including his steadfast refusal to allow whites to interpret the aspirations of black America. Seared by the rejection of terrified liberals and the black bourgeoisie during the Communist witch-hunts, Du Bois ended his days in uncompromising exile in newly independent Ghana. In re-creating the turbulent times in which he lived and fought, Lewis restores the inspiring and famed Du Bois to his central place in American history.

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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Year
2000
ISBN-13
9780805025347
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Civil rights movementHarlem RenaissanceRacism and segregation

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