W. E. B. Du Bois, Volume II (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Levering Lewis
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1919-1963, with regressions to earlier years
- Setting: New York City, Chicago, Paris, Brussels, London, Geneva, and Accra, Ghana
- Principal Characters: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Nina Du Bois, Yolanda Du Bois, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkruma, Francis Marion White
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, Civil rights, 1960’s, New York, United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Intellectuals, Communism or communists, France or French people, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, New York City, 1940’s, Paris, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Chicago, London, Switzerland or Swiss people, Illinois, Belgium or Belgian people, Activism, England
- Locales: Ghana, New York, NY, Paris, France, Chicago, IL, London, England, Geneva, Switzerland, Brussels, Belgium
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was bigger than life. Among the most celebrated intellectuals of his day, he was the founding editor of The Crisis, a monthly magazine dealing with black issues and serving as the major mouthpiece of the NAACP. Its monthly circulation in the early 1920’s exceeded one hundred thousand copies. Du Bois’s articles and editorials in it attracted a wide range of readers, black and white, and were a motivating force in demanding that African Americans be accorded the civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all United States citizens.
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