The World of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Quotation Sourcebook by Meyer Weinberg

By Meyer Weinberg

W.E.B. Du Bois used to be one of many best activist males of letters in 20th-century the United States. Du Bois geared up, protested, laid out courses, petitioned, and raised questions of long term technique and non permanent strategies. He wrote special scholarly investigations, Souls of Black people and Black Reconstruction between them, in addition to renowned present articles. He was once a commanding speaker and a prodigious correspondent. And but, it used to be no longer until eventually the Eighties that his whole writings turned available.

The international of W.E.B. Du Bois was once created to supply a quick trip via his perspectives on nearly all points of 20th-century existence. greater than 1,000 quotations from his released writings and correspondence are supplied. those are grouped into 19 topical and one miscellaneous bankruptcy. each one quote starts off with a heading designed to summarize the most experience of the citation. a topic index offers extra entry to the guidelines of this complicated determine. crucial studying for all fascinated with American race family members and highbrow historical past and American and Black Studies.

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