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Article: Wolters, Raymond Du Bois and His Rivals.(Brief Article)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- June 22, 2002
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Columbia: University of Missouri Press 311 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1385-5 Publication Date: May 2002
Raymond Wolters, the Thomas Muncy Keith Professor of History at the University of Delaware, has written one of the most lucid group biographies that I have had the privilege to read. This tightly framed narrative explores the intensely emotional conflicts between W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Oswald Garrison Villard, Robert Russa Moton, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, and Walter White. The seam that holds the narrative together is Wolters's attribution of the concept of pluralism as "central to understanding Du Bois" (1). In other words, Wolters has sought to ...