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Informationen zum Autor Shawn Leigh Alexander is associate professor and graduate director of African and African American studies and director of the Langston Hughes Center at the University of Kansas, where he specializes in African American social and intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published an anthology of T. Thomas Fortune's writings, T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator (2008); a study of African American civil rights activity in the post-Reconstruction era entitled, An Army of Lions: The Struggle for Civil Rights before the NAACP (2012); a reprint of William Sinclair's classic 1905 study, The Aftermath of Slavery: A Study of the Condition and Environment of the American Negro (2012); and a collection on racial violence after the Civil War, Reconstruction Violence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings (2015). Klappentext W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African-American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Alexander's traces the development of Du Bois' thought over time. Zusammenfassung W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African-American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Alexander’s traces the development of Du Bois' thought over time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Early Years Chapter 2: The Study of the Negro Chapter 3: Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Others: A Challenge of Leadership Chapter 4: Building Movements: The NAACP, Pan-Africanism, Garvey, and a Renaissance Chapter 5: Back to the Wings of Atlanta and the NAACP Redux Chapter 6: Marching towards Peace A Note on SourcesIndexAbout the Authors
