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1 online resource (vi, 174 pages) : illustrations |
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Revolutionary Lives |
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Revolutionary lives.
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Childhood, youth, and education in an age of reform -- Becoming a scholar and activist -- Socialism, activism, and World War I -- Du Bois and the Russian Revolution -- The Depression, Black Reconstruction, and Du Bois's Asia turn -- Pan-africanism or communism -- Wrestling with the Cold War, Stalinism, and the blacklist -- The east is red: supporting revolutions in Asia -- Final years: exile, death, and legacy |
| Summary |
Accessible introduction to the life and times of one of the towering figures of the American Civil Rights movement |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-169) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
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| SUBJECT |
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. fast (OCoLC)fst00053661 |
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African Americans -- Biography
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Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
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African Americans.
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Civil rights workers.
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Intellectuals.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783719655 |
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1783719656 |
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