W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963

Summary

David Levering Lewis traces the later decades of W. E. B. Du Bois, the scholar and activist who helped found the NAACP and pushed relentlessly for Black equality. The book follows his pan African organizing, his growing radicalism, and his eventual self exile to Ghana. It stands as a sweeping account of how one intellectual confronted racism, war, and the limits of American democracy.