Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and...
The problem of "the color line," W.E.B. Du Bois's ever-present polemical theme, is at the core of this novel of sensual love, radical politics, and the quest for racial justice. Originally published by Harcourt Brace and Co. in 1928, Dark Princess...
VOICES FROM WITHIN THE VEIL - POSTSCRIPT THESE are the things of which men think, who live of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers of their leighlors of work and service of rule and reason and women and children of Beauty and Deat...
Excerpt: ...What is it that makes a successful laboring force? It is laborers of education and natural intelligence, reasonably satisfied with their conditions, inspired with certain ideals of life, and with a growing sense of self-respect and self-r...
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally th...
A strong plea for the higher education of the Negro, which those who are interested in the future of the freedmen cannot afford to ignore. Prof. DuBois produces ample evidence to prove conclusively the truth of his statement that to attempt to establ...
Classic work by the civil rights activist and leader, sociologist, educator, historian, prolific writer, editor, poet, scholar, and socialist. The Negro is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Saharan cultures, i...
W. E. B. Du Bois was a historian and a leading civil rights activist. Du Bois formed the Niagara Movement which was a group of African-American activists that demanded full civil rights. Du Bois was also an influential writer in African-A...