Title: Du Bois and his rivals
First published: 2002
Description: "W. E. B. Du Bois was the preeminent black scholar of his era. He was also a principal founder and for twenty-eight years an executive officer of the nation's most effective civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Even though Du Bois was best known for his lifelong stance against racial oppression, he represented much more. He condemned the racism of the white world but also criticized African Americans for mistakes of their own.

He opposed segregation but had reservations about integration. Today he would be known as a pluralist.".

"In Du Bois and His Rivals, Raymond Wolters provides a distinctive biography of this great pioneer of the American civil rights movement. Readers are able to follow the outline of Du Bois's life, but the book's main emphasis is on discrete scenes in his life, especially the controversies that pitted Du Bois against his principal black rivals. He challenged Booker T. Washington because he could not abide Washington's conciliatory approach toward powerful whites.

At the same time, Du Bois's pluralism led him to oppose the leading separatists and integrationists of his day. He berated Marcus Garvey for giving up on America and urging blacks to pursue a separate destiny. He also rejected Walter White's insistence that integration was the best way to promote the advancement of black people."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Biography, History, African Americans, African American civil rights workers, Friends and associates, Intellectual life, Civil rights, African American leadership, Political and social views, Pluralism (Social sciences), Civil rights workers, African American intellectuals, Cultural pluralism, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Rassenvraagstuk, Burgerrechten, Friendship, Race relations
Places: United States
People: W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: E185.97.D73 W65 2002