By Gerald Horne
This revealing biography captures the whole lifetime of W.E.B. Du Bois—historian, sociologist, writer, editor—a chief within the struggle to convey African americans extra absolutely into the yank panorama in addition to forceful proponent of them leaving the US altogether and returning to Africa.
Drawing on large study, Gerald Horne, a number one authority on Du Bois and a flexible and prolific student in his personal correct, deals an absolutely rounded portrait of this entire and debatable determine, together with the usually missed ultimate many years with out which no portrait of Du Bois may be entire. The e-book additionally highlights Du Bois's relationships with and impression upon different best civil rights activists either in the course of, and next to, his terribly lengthy lifestyles, together with Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Jesse Jackson.
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Convinced that he was well on his way to attaining the credentials and knowledge that would allow him to help lift his people—only recently removed from enslavement — to ever greater heights, Du Bois buckled down to the rigors of graduate study in Berlin. Renting a room from a local family, Du Bois retained the rigorous discipline that had served him so well at Harvard. Despite his fluency in German, the youthful Du Bois, who maintained a lifelong sensitivity to slights — racist and otherwise—could often be spotted sitting alone or walking alone.
Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 47. Chapter 2 DR. DU BOIS After two years in Europe, Du Bois returned to the United States by boat, across the choppy waters of the North Atlantic. The plight of African Americans that had existed when he had left for Europe had yet to terminate: African Americans continued to endure lynching and disfranchisement as the promise of Reconstruction continued to be suffocated and strangled. The now 26-year-old scholar traveled in steerage, along with prospective European migrants who upon arrival in New York would immediately be deemed of a higher status than Du Bois, whose roots in the United States ran deep.
Du Bois, “ The Study of the Negro Problem,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 11 ( January 1898): 1– 23. 12. Southern Workman, 28 (April 1899): 149 –151. 13. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 99 –102. 14. B. Du Bois Papers, University of MassachusettsAmherst. Chapter 3 WHEN TITANS COLLIDE Du Bois’s tenure at Atlanta University occurred as the nation in which he resided witnessed an ossifying of Jim Crow. S. Supreme Court in the profoundly significant case, Plessy v.