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Article: Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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By Raymond Wolters. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 311. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1385-5.)
The literature on W. E. B. Du Bois--NAACP founder, scholar, novelist, father of Pan-Africanism, and in his later years, Communist--continues to grow. Two reasons for this growth are the sheer longevity of his life, which extended from the era of Reconstruction in February 1868 to the dawn of the civil rights movement in August 1963, and his lifelong tendency to file away neatly all incoming and outgoing correspondence.
Raymond Wolters is the latest scholar to take the measure of Du Bois, and despite the well-deserved accolades ...