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E. B. Du Bois’s 1900 Paris Exposition data portraits as a visually riveting paperback. After public release in digitized form by the Library of Congress and in various printed color formats in a ...
W.E.B. Du Bois by C.M. Battey ... And in Europe, lurid press reports were painting an ugly portrait of Black Americans to white readers. Calloway, as lead organizer of the “Exhibit of American ...
The second volume continues this compelling narrative through 1963, the year of Du Bois’ death, completing the portrait of a man ... of the first volume of “W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919 ...
If you’d stepped inside a typical Black household not too long ago, you would have seen this: plastic-covered living room furniture, portraits ... a comeback. W.E.B. Du Bois, the civil rights ...
W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, author, activist and co-founder of the NAACP, died on this day in history on Aug. 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana at age 95. "He was an activist who was the most ...
In 1920, W.E.B. Du Bois understood the importance of positive ... open letters, essays, poems, portraits and mixed-media artwork from 50 Black writers and artists.” The couple is extremely ...
On the cover was a portrait of an adolescent ballet dancer ... of the Sun,” The Brownies’ Book was conceived by W.E.B. Du Bois, who named the writer Jessie Redmon Fauset literary editor.
We spoke with Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University, about the importance of Du Bois’ seminal study and why it’s still relevant ...
GREAT BARRINGTON — Tucked in among the downtown’s commercial buildings is an old, shingle-style church with peeling white paint and a 30-foot tower out front. But now, its former members and ...
But my touchstone for thinking about the period continues to be W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Black Reconstruction,” published in 1935 after years of painstaking research that was often inhibited by ...
In Volume One of "W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race" audiobook, the actor will narrate the first five decades of the activist's life. Tony Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will reintroduce ...