Variant title |
W.E.B DuBois : biography of a race, 1868-1919 |
Variant title |
WEB DuBois : biography of a race, 1868-1919 |
Contents |
Postlude to the future -- Mary Silvina's Great Barrington -- Berkshire prodigy -- The age of miracles: Fisk and Josie's world -- The age of miracles: "at but not of Harvard" -- Lehrjahre -- Wilberforce: book mentor, marriage -- From Philadelphia to Atlanta -- Social science, ambition, and Tuskegee -- Clashing temperaments -- The souls of black folk -- Going over Niagara: Du Bois and Washington -- Atlanta: scholar behind the veil -- NAACP: the beginning -- Rise of the crisis, decline of the wizard -- Connections at home and abroad -- Crises at The Crisis -- The perpetual drama -- "The wounded world." |
Abstract |
Biography of civil rights movement leader W.E.B. Du Bois concentrating on the early and middle years of his long and intense career. |
General note | "A John MacRae book." |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016. |
Awards note | Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2001. |
Genre/form | Biography. |
Genre/form | History. |
LCCN | 93016617 |
ISBN | 0805026215 |
ISBN | 9780805026214 |