Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer, and civil rights
leader, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was a major figure in American
life and one of the earliest proponents of equality for black
Americans. He was a founder and leader of the Niagara Movement, the
NAACP, and the Pan-African Movement; a progenitor of the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance; an advocate of anticolonialism,
anti-imperialism, unionism, and equality for women; and a champion
of the rights of oppressed people around the world.
The three-volume Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois offers a
unique perspective on Du Bois's experiences and views. In
recognition of the significance of the Correspondence, the final
volume was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book
Review.
Herbert Aptheker has provided an introduction and notes to each
volume, illuminating the circumstances and identifying the
personalities involved in the correspondence.
"An excellent job of editing.... There is not an editorial
comment nor an editorial footnote that is superfluous. There is not
a single letter nor an exchange of letters that does not contribute
to the reader's understanding of Du Bois himself or of the history
of the times through which Du Bois lived and upon which he had a
very considerable effect". -- Jay Saunders Redding, Phylon
"Du Bois's long life and committed scholarship were devoted to a
belief in the ultimate realization of one world free of racial or
ethnic division and strife, economic exploitation and inequity,
capable of unlimited intellectual, scientific and technological
development for the benefit of humankind". -- David Graham Du
Bois
"This is an immensely valuable contribution to the literature.
It isintelligently laid out with a helpful chronological and
subject table of contents and the material itself is of crucial
importance. The range of subjects with which Du Bois deals is
immense and his honesty, integrity, and politics shine through this
correspondence. He deals presciently with the problems of the
post-World War II world, with the ruling class's interests, and
with the range of struggles being waged and to be waged". -- Sage
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