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- February 26, 1995
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NONFICTION W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader, edited by David Levering
Lewis (Holt, $16.95). Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning W.E.B. Du
Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, David Levering Lewis here
presents some 800 pages of Du Bois's writings. Over his long life
(1868-1963) Du Bois was a college professor, a sociologist,
historian, co-founder of what would become the NAACP, and editor of
that organization's publication, the Crisis. The first black to earn
a doctorate from Harvard, Du Bois was a tireless crusader against
racial injustice. The essays and excerpts included here range from
"Jefferson Davis as a Representative of Civilization," Du Bois's 1890
commencement address at Harvard, to ...