W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet

The Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......characterization of W. E. B. Du Bois as irreligious, Blum argues that Du Bois "was one of America...monk" (pp. 7, 221). Blum analyzes Du Bois's writing by genre...challenge oppression. Blum powerfully situates Du Bois's best-known work, The...

W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet.(Book review)

Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......characterization of W. E. B. Du Bois as irreligious, Blum argues that Du Bois was one of America's...dark monk (pp. 7, 221). Blum analyzes Du Bois's writing by genre...challenge oppression. Blum powerfully situates Du Bois's best-known work, The...

W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919.

The Nation;  November 15, 1993 ;     700+ words ......uncompromising voice of racial justice, W.E.D. Du Bois is among the towering figures of twentiety-centu...comprehensive studies have appeared of Du Bois's great antagonists Booker T. Washington...literary executor, Herbert Aptheker, that Du Bois has been made accessible to ...

A letter from W.E.B. Du Bois to his daughter Yolande, dated "Moscow,...

The Journal of Negro History;  June 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Published here for the first time is a rare 1958 letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to his daughter, Yolande Du Bois Williams. Du Bois wrote the letter at a sanitarium near Moscow, four months into an extended trip through western...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Origins of a Bitter...

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the 26-year-old William Edward Burghardt Du Bois sent a letter to Booker T Washington...vacancy at Tuskegee for the coming term. Du Bois had just returned from two years of study...president of Johns Hopkins University. Du Bois had been at Fisk with Washington's wife...

DU BOIS DEBATE WORTHY OF A MANIFESTO COMMUNIST TIES HAMPER MOVEMENT TO PAY...

The Boston Globe;  October 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ...GREAT BARRINGTON W.E.B. Du Bois may be this town's most famous native...his legacy is tainted by politics: Du Bois was a Communist. For years, Great Barrington...grappled with how to pay tribute to Du Bois. Efforts to erect markers have met...

Du Bois and His Rivals

The Journal of Southern History;  November 1, 2003 ;     552 words ...Du Bois and His Rivals. By Raymond Wolters. (Columbia...0-8262-1385-5.) The literature on W. E. B. Du Bois-NAACP founder, scholar, novelist, father...the latest scholar to take the measure of Du Bois, and despite the well-deserved accolades...

Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book Review)

Journal of Southern History;  November 1, 2003 ;     545 words ......0-8262-1385-5.) The literature on W. E. B. Du Bois--NAACP founder, scholar, novelist, father...latest scholar to take the measure of Du Bois, and despite the well-deserved accolades...he tackles the major controversies in Du Bois's long life largely through scrutinizing...

On Du Bois's move to Africa. (W.E.B. Du Bois)

Monthly Review;  December 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...The opinion has arisen that Du Bois's move to Africa in 1961 was indicative...autobiography notes the striking fact that Dr. Du Bois's death had occurred in Accra on the very...ensued. In this book Wilkins refers to Du Bois's early fight against Jim Crow, giving...

The Remarkable Life of W.E.B. Du Bois; W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for...

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  January 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ......IT WAS in 1960 that I last saw W.E.B. Du Bois. My younger brother and I, then teenagers...of a nuclear war. Among the group were Du Bois and his second wife, the writer Shirley Graham. After listening to our account, Du Bois, then 92, remarked with a knowing smile...

William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois

Precinct Reporter;  February 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Washington, historians consider W.E.B. Du Bois one of the most influential African Americans...Born only six years after Emancipation, Du Bois was active well into his nineties, dying...elitism, communism, and black separatism, Du Bois remained throughout his long life black...

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Quest for the Abolition of the Color Line

The Journal of Southern History;  May 1, 2003 ;     513 words ...W. E. B. Du Bois: The Quest for the Abolition of the Color...Nankai University in China, charts W. E. B. Du Bois's struggle for racial freedom over familiar ground, noting that after World War II, Du Bois completely abandoned the democratic capitalism...

Scholar: Du Bois a man of contradictions, controversy ; Pulitzer...

Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  February 17, 2004 ;     524 words ......scholar and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The historian, a professor at Rutgers University, called Du Bois a "man of contradictions" and focused his lecture on the more radical moments of Du Bois' life. To study Du Bois' journey from...

Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book review)

The Western Journal of Black Studies;  December 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Du Bois and His Rivals AUTHOR: RAMON WOLTERS UNIVERSITY...39.95 ISBN:0-82621-385-5 CLOTH Wolters' Du Bois and His Rivals joins a host of scholarly...about the life and contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois. Through Wolters' prose, Du Bois emerges...

Teaching Du Bois at the right moment. (Last Word).(civil rights leader W....

Black Issues in Higher Education;  June 19, 2003 ;     621 words ......a semester-long celebration of W.E.B. Du Bois' seminal work The Souls of Black Folk...reasons, regardless of the anniversary: Du Bois uses interdisciplinary approaches in exploring...mental landscape, but the particulars that Du Bois outlines are somewhat academic. We understand...