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Article: BOOKSHELF.(books by and about African Americans)(Bibliography)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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A follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning first volume of his biography of William Edward Burghardt DuBois, W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (Henry Holt & Company, $35), David Levering Lewis continues the story of one of America's greatest scholars with an expansive look at his contributions and impact on America from 1919 until his death in 1963. Picking up the story with troops returning from World War I and the 52-year-old DuBois serving as the editor of the Crisis, the author details DuBois' many battles on the frontline of racial advancement--from his ideological struggles with some NAACP leaders and with Marcus Garvey to ...