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Pulitzer Prize winning historian David
Levering Lewis was born on May 25, 1936 in Little Rock,
Arkansas. His father, Yale educated theologian John Henry
Lewis, Sr., was the principal of Paul Laurence Dunbar High
School and his mother was a high school math teacher. After
attending parochial school in Little Rock, Lewis went to
Wilberforce Preparatory School and Xenia High School, both
in Ohio. Moving to Atlanta, Georgia, Lewis attended Booker
T. Washington High School until he was admitted to Fisk
University in Nashville, Tennessee on a four-year Ford
Foundation Early Entrants scholarship. Graduating Phi Beta
Kappa from Fisk University in 1956, Lewis then attended the
University of Michigan Law School, but eventually earned his
M.A. degree in history from Columbia University in 1959. He
earned his Ph.D. degree in modern European and French
history from the London School of Economics and Political
Science in 1962.
God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of
Europe, 570-1215 Hardcover: 384 pages
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (Author), David Levering Lewis (Introduction) Hardcover: 320 pages
When Harlem Was in Vogue Paperback: 448 pages
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. ISBN: 0805025340 In this final, magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning biographer David Levering Lewis stunningly re-creates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois's charged and brilliant career. Beginning with the return of World War I African-American veterans to the riots and lynchings of the "Red Summer" of 1919 and ending with Du Bois' self-imposed exile and death in Ghana forty-four years later, Lewis charts the dramatic evolution of the premier architect of the Civil Rights movement from Talented Tenth elitist to internationalist and proponent of economic as well as racial democracy for all people of color. Based on original research on three continents, this richly detailed volume of history alters our understanding of the culture and politics of race in the twentieth century. Lewis chronicles the titanic struggle between Du Bois and Marcus Garvey's "back to Africa" movement, and interprets the Harlem Renaissance as a civil rights enterprise masquerading as an arts movement that Du Bois, a movement impresario, soon renounced in search of economic solutions to the race problem. After inspiring millions of black and white readers through the NAACP journal, The Crisis, Du Bois left the NAACP in a firestorm of controversy to pursue a politically risky course that took him inside Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan as the major geopolitics of the American Century were taking shape. Leaving mainstream historians to absorb the seismic impact of his 1935 masterpiece, Black Reconstruction in America, Du Bois looked increasingly to socialism in his search for race solutions after a postwar return to the NAACP that ended with his embrace of the Progressive Party politics of Henry Wallace, a deepening friendship with Paul Robeson, and an expanding circle of friends on the left. Federal indictment as a foreign agent and humiliation followed but failed to silence the prescient voice that would come to inspire new generations with its genius. Had he died at fifty, the great contrarian said that he would have been acclaimed. "At seventy-five my death was practically requested."
ISBN: 0805035680 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America, a founder of the NAACP, - was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the impatience of the agitator. This monumental biography - eight years in the research and writing - treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves. Photo inserts.
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. DuBois (Author), David Levering Lewis (Introduction) Paperback: 768 pages
by David Levering Lewis & Deborah Willis ISBN:
0060523425 As the world prepared to celebrate a century of progress at the 1900 International Exposition in Paris, W.E.B. Du Bois, then a sociology professor at Atlanta University, was approached by Thomas Calloway, an African American lawyer who called for black participation in the exposition, to illustrate progress made by black Americans since Emancipation. Du Bois, Calloway and Daniel A. P. Murray, a son of freed slaves and assistant Librarian of Congress, compiled books, manuscripts, artifacts and some 500 photographs of people, homes, churches, businesses and landscapes that defied stereotypes. 'A Small Nation of People' brings together more than 150 of these photographs in a single volume for the first time. Known as 'The Exhibit of American Negroes,' the Paris
display included a set of charts, maps and graphs prepared
by Du Bois recording the growth of population, economic
power and literacy among African Americans in Georgia. It
also included photographs that exemplified dignity,
accomplishment and progress such as images of African
Americans attending universities and running businesses. David Levering Lewis, a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning volumes 'W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century' and 'W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race.' He is a professor of history at New York University. Deborah Willis, also a MacArthur Fellow, writes
frequently on African American themes as well as on the
history of photography. Among her more recent publications
is 'Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers,
1840-Present.' She is a professor of photography and imaging
at New York University.
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
W. E. B. DuBois:
Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
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Small Nation of People : W. E. B. Du Bois and African
American Portraits of Progress