Bibliograph

W.E.B. Du Bois, revolutionary across the color line, Bill V. Mullen

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W.E.B. Du Bois, revolutionary across the color line, Bill V. Mullen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-169) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

W.E.B. Du Bois

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Bill V. Mullen

Series statement

Revolutionary lives

Sub title

revolutionary across the color line

Summary

On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, "I Have a Dream", the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a close in Accra, Ghana. W.E.B. Du Bois was born in Massachusetts in 1868, just three years after formal emancipation of America's slaves. In his extraordinarily long and active political life, he would emerge as the first black man to earn a PhD from Harvard; surpass Booker T. Washington as the leading advocate for African American rights; co-found the NAACP, and involve himself in anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggles across Asia and Africa. In this new biography, Bill V. Mullen interprets the seismic political developments of the Twentieth Century through the revolutionary life of W.E.B. Du Bois -- focusing not just on his Civil Rights work, but also examining Du Bois's attitudes towards socialism, the USSR, China's Communist Revolution, and the relationship between capitalism, poverty and racism.--Publisher website

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Revolutionary Lives Matter: Reclaiming W.E.B. Du Bois For Our Time -- Part I: Racial Uplift and the Reform Era -- 1. Childhood, Youth and Education in an Age of Reform -- 2. Becoming a Scholar and Activist -- 3. Socialism, Activism and World War I -- Part II: From Moscow to Manchester: 1917-1945 -- 4. Du Bois and the Russian Revolution -- 5. The Depression, Black Reconstruction, and Du Bois's Asia Turn -- 6. Pan-Africanism or Communism? -- Part III: Revolution and the Cold War 1945-1963 -- 7. Wrestling with the Cold War, Stalinism, and the Blacklist -- 8. The East is Red: Supporting Revolutions in Asia -- 9. Final Years, Exile, Death and Legacy

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