W.E.B. Du Bois
Subtitle: An Encyclopedia
Contributors: Gerald Horne (Editor); Mary Young (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: April 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780313296659
Subjects: Biography: general; Black studies; Multicultural studies; Reference works; Dubois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963; Social Reform; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; English; Reference; USA; Cultural Heritage; Historical - U.S.; People of Color; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; Political; (William Edward Burghardt),; 1868-1963; African Americans; Biography; Civil rights workers; Du Bois, W. E. B; Encyclopedias; United States
Description: "Following W.E.B. Du Bois from his birth in Massachusetts in 1868 to his death in Ghana in 1963, this concise encyclopedia covers all of the highlights of his life - his studies at Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin, his famous tiff with Booker T. Washington, his role with the NAACP and Pan-Africanism, his writings, his globe trotting, and his exile in Ghana.

With contributions by leading scholars and a foreword by David Levering Lewis, the encyclopedia provides a complete highlighted overview of Du Bois' life, the events and personalities that influenced him, his intellectual contributions, and his activism."--BOOK JACKET.