W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography

✍ Scribed by Gerald Horne

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Series: Greenwood Biographies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This revealing biography captures the full life of W.E.B. Du Bois—historian, sociologist, author, editor—a leader in the fight to bring African Americans more fully into the American landscape as well as forceful proponent of them leaving America altogether and returning to Africa.

Drawing on extensive research, Gerald Horne, a leading authority on Du Bois and a versatile and prolific scholar in his own right, offers a fully rounded portrait of this accomplished and controversial figure, including the often overlooked final decades without which no portrait of Du Bois could be complete. The book also highlights Du Bois's relationships with and influence upon other leading civil rights activists both during, and subsequent to, his extraordinarily long life, including Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Jesse Jackson.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 6
Series Foreword
......Page 8
Preface
......Page 10
Introduction
......Page 12
Timeline
......Page 18
1. Beginnings
......Page 20
2. Dr. Du Bois
......Page 36
3. When Titans Collide
......Page 52
4. Present at the Creation
......Page 68
5. A New Path
......Page 84
6. Conflicts
......Page 100
7. Talented Tenths
......Page 122
8. Divorces
......Page 138
9. Wars
......Page 154
10. Turning Point
......Page 170
11. Trials
......Page 186
12. Redemption
......Page 202
Selected Bibliography
......Page 216
Index
......Page 222