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Title W.E.B. Du Bois : a biography in four voices / produced and directed by Louis Massiah ; a production of Scribe Video Center
Published San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (115 minutes)
Summary The long and remarkable life of Dr. William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B) Du Bois (1868-1963) offers unique insights into an eventful century in African American history. Born three years after the end of the Civil War, Du Bois witnessed the imposition of Jim Crow, its defeat by the Civil Rights Movement and the triumph of African independence struggles.Du Bois was the consummate scholar-activist whose path-breaking works remain among the most significant and articulate ever produced on the subject of race. His contributions and legacy have been so far-reaching, that this, his first film biography, required the collaboration of four prominent African American writers. Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka narrate successive periods of Du Bois' life and discuss its impact on their work.Part One: Black Folk and the New Century (1895-1915) Du Bois' first sociological work, The Philadelphia Negro, and, even more, The Souls of Black Folk, examined the cultural and political psychology of the American African Diaspora. During the same period, racism was institutionalized under the Jim Crow system. Du Bois emerged as the most outspoken critic of Booker T. Washington's advocacy of accommodation to segregation. He co-founded the Niagara Movement and then the NAACP to agitate for full equality between blacks and whites. Part Two: The Crisis and the New Negro (1919-1929)Du Bois created the NAACP's magazine, The Crisis, which became a vital organ in the burgeoning African American cultural movement, the Harlem Renaissance. Du Bois also was a founder of the Pan African movement, organizing the first international congresses of leaders from Africa and the Diaspora. Part Three: A Second Reconstruction? (1934-1948) Dismissed from the editorship of The Crisis for his radical views, Du Bois was forced to resume his academic career at age 68. It was now the Depression and he became more open to leftist ideology as reflected in his magnum opus, Black Reconstruction.Part Four: Color, Democracy, Colonies and Peace (1949-1963) Du Bois' continuing anti-racist activism and growing leftist sympathies made him a target during the McCarthy years. He was indicted and for a time his passport was revoked. In 1961, Kwame Nkrumah, the president of the newly independent African state of Ghana, invited him to participate in that country's development; Du Bois accepted, living there for the remainder of his life
Notes Title from title screen (viewed July 7, 2021)
Performer Narrators, Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, Amiri Baraka
Notes In English
Subject Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
SUBJECT Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 fast
Subject National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- History
SUBJECT National Association for the Advancement of Colored People fast
Pan African Congress -- History
Pan African Congress fast
Subject African American sociologists -- Biography
African American authors -- Biography
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Race identity.
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
Civil rights -- United States -- Biography
African American authors
African American sociologists
African Americans
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Race identity
Civil rights
Race relations
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States
Genre/Form Streaming video
documentary film.
Biographical films
Biographies
Documentary films
History
Documentary films.
Biographical films.
Documentaires.
Films biographiques.
Form Streaming video
Author Massiah, Louis, director, producer
Scribe Video Center, production company.
California Newsreel (Firm), publisher.