“w e b du bois”

Enduring Liturature Illuminated by Practical ScholarshipA revolutionary collection of essays about the African-American experience at the turn of the twentieth century.This Enriched Classic Edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of ... More

Originally published in 1911, "The Quest of the Silver Fleece was the first novel to come from world-famous sociologist and civil-rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois. A controversial title of its time, the novel chronicles the complex interactions between Northern financing and Southern politics as it foll... More

The study begins with the colonial period- setting forth in brief the attitude of England and more in detail- the attitude of the planting- farming- and trading groups of colonies toward the slave-trade.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)... More

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. "The time has not yet come for a complete history of the Negro peoples. ... More

In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct in-depth studies of the Negro community in Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great em... More

"This masterfully edited collection . . . is worth every exhilarating moment that one spends perusing it". -- Journal of American History... More