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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Gerald Horne is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This biography of W.E.B. Du Bois gives full measure to his entire life, including his controversial final decades.This revealing biography captures the full life of W.E.B. Du Bois—historian, sociologist, author, editor—a leader in the fight to bring African Americans more fully into the American landscape as well as forceful proponent of them leaving America altogether and returning to Africa.Drawing on extensive research, Gerald Horne, a leading authority on Du Bois and a versatile and prolific scholar in his own right, offers a fully rounded portrait of this accomplished and controversial figure, including the often overlooked final decades without which no portrait of Du Bois could be complete. The book also highlights Du Bois's relationships with and influence upon other leading civil rights activists both during, and subsequent to, his extraordinarily long life, including Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Jesse Jackson.

Who reads W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Gerald Horne
Publisher
Greenwood; Bloomsbury
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9786612341120
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, Historical Fiction, Science

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