Du Bois

Born at the end of the slavery era, she became a leader without the help of the kind of educational or social credentials that would help younger black leaders such as Du Bois earn the respect of the increasingly educated black middle class-and their white allies as well.

AmericanHeritage.com 2009

Of critical importance, Du Bois wrote, is his financial success, his efforts to increase church membership, and his personal popularity.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Du Bois had written, It is given to few persons to transform a people in a generation.

Gerit Quealy: Forgotten Women: Madam C. J. Walker, Beauty Entrepreneur Gerit Quealy 2011

Du Bois had written, It is given to few persons to transform a people in a generation.

Gerit Quealy: Forgotten Women: Madam C. J. Walker, Beauty Entrepreneur Gerit Quealy 2011

Having seen the human drama “from a veiled corner,” Du Bois had set about trying to lift the veil of race enough for white people to see—and even to feel—through the medium of arresting language and moral signposts what it was like to be a second class citizen in America, a virtual caste whose pariah status inhered in the inescapability of skin color.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

On March 22nd, three weeks after publication, Du Bois received a royalty check for $280.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

“Today, therefore, we are challenging this ownership,” Du Bois asserted.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

That evangelical faith in the transformative power of education that sustained Du Bois until the end was at open throttle in “The Immortal Child,” a sometimes lyrical evocation of the short, extraordinary career of his friend, the Afro-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Du Bois dedicated the book to Nina Gomer, his wife of twenty-four years.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

In “The Shadow of Years,” Du Bois retold his saga of the Black Burghardts of the Berkshires and of growing up “by a golden river” in Great Barrington, of the lordly Du Boises and his austere paternal grandfather, of the “age of miracles” at Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin, and of his work in Atlanta.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004