W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919

Summary

David Levering Lewis follows the early life of W. E. B. Du Bois, the scholar and activist who became a towering voice for African American rights. This first volume spans his New England childhood, his education at Fisk and Harvard, his pioneering sociological work, and his founding role in the NAACP. It places Du Bois at the center of the struggle to define race and freedom in America.