W. E. B. Du Bois (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Hamilton
- First Published: 1972
- Time of Work: 1868–1963
- Setting: Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Ohio, Georgia, and Ghana
- Principal Characters: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Yolande Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Jane Addams, Thomas Rice, Langston Hughes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Shirley Graham Du Bois
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, Pan-Africanism, Family or family life, Africa or Africans, Intellectuals, Social reform, Racism, Socialism, Authors or writers, Education or educators, Writing, Biography, Sociology
- Locales: Ghana, Ohio, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts
Form and Content
Virginia Hamilton, in W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography, tells more than the story of Du Bois’ life; the book is also the history of the struggle for equal rights for African Americans and of the profound influence that Du Bois had on that process. Du Bois lived for ninety-five years, so the biography is able to portray the progress and setbacks that occurred over a considerable period of time. Struggles within the African-American community itself are also shown; the debates between Du Bois and Booker T. Washington became a crossroads in the unification...
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