Black Flame Trilogy: Book Two, Mansart Builds a School the Oxford W. - E. B. Du Bois

The second book in W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Flame trilogy, Mansart Builds a School, opens with Mansart's election to superintendent of Negro schools in Atlanta and follows him as he ascends to the position of president of Georgia State A&M College. The book provides a damning portrait of the state of education for African Americans in the south.

About the author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has edited several major reference works, including Dictionary of African Biography, African American Lives, Africana, and African American National Biography. In addition, he is Editor in Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center (www.oxfordaasc.com).

Summary

The second book in W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Flame trilogy, Mansart Builds a School, opens with Mansart's election to superintendent of Negro schools in Atlanta and follows him as he ascends to the position of president of Georgia State A&M College. The book provides a damning portrait of the state of education for African Americans in the south.

Product details

• Authors: W. E. B. Du Bois, W. E. B. Hayes Edwards Du Bois, Du Bois W. E. B., Henry Louis Gates, Brent Hayes Edwards, Hayes Edwards Brent
• Assisted by: Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Gates Henry Louis (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2014
• EAN: 9780199386994
• ISBN: 978-0-19-938699-4
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery