The W. E. B. Du Bois Page

( 1868-1963 )

Major Works
Nathan Huggins selected the texts and wrote the notes for Writings, the Du Bois volume in the Library of America, 1986. It contains a number of essays from The Crisis, which Du Bois edited from 1910-1934.
The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America ( 1896 ).
The Philadelphia Negro ( 1899 ).
"The Evolution of Negro Leadership". Dr Du Bois' review of Up From Slavery, 1901.
The Souls of Black Folk ( 1903 ). On Line
John Brown ( 1909 ). A biography of the hero of Harper's Ferry.
The Quest of the Silver Fleece ( 1911 ). A novel. Reprinted with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad. Northeastern, 1989.
Dark Princess: A Romance ( 1928 ). Reprinted with an introduction by Claudia Tate. Mississippi, 1995.
Dusk of Dawn ( 1940 ).
The Black Flame ( 1976 ). A trilogy of earlier novels.

About Du Bois
David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. Holt, 1993.
Arnold Rampersad, The Art and Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois. Harvard, 1976. Reprint, Schocken( in slightly different form), 1990.
WEBDB: American Sociologist and Protest Leader
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
PAL Du Bois Page
Brief Sketch

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