num_pages: 752
description: This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves. 
language: English
title: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
titlecomplete: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
characters: W.E.B. Du Bois
genres: History, Education, Race, American History, African American, Biography Memoir, Biography, 20th Century, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 548
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Holt Paperbacks