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W. E. B. Du Bois, with Mary White Ovington, was honored with a medallion in The Extra Mile. The NAACP awarded the Spingarn Medal to Du Bois in 1920. [368] In 1958, Du Bois was inducted into the Fisk University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa when he returned to campus to receive an honorary degree. [369]
The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological and epidemiological study of African Americans in Philadelphia that was written by W. E. B. Du Bois, commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and published in 1899 with the intent of identifying social problems present in the African American community.
The veil is a visual manifestation of the color line, a problem Du Bois worked his whole life to remedy. Du Bois sublimates the function of the veil when he refers to it as a gift of second sight for African Americans, thus simultaneously characterizing the veil as both a blessing and a curse. [5]
Du Bois thought that certain historians were maintaining the "southern white fairytale" [20] instead of accurately chronicling the events and key figures of Reconstruction. In the 1960s and through the next decades, a new generation of historians began to re-evaluate Du Bois' work, as well as works of other African-American historians. [21]
Written when he was 50, Darkwater is the first of Du Bois's three autobiographies and was followed by Dusk of Dawn: An Autobiography of a Race Concept, and The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of its First Century.
John Brown is a biography written by W. E. B. Du Bois about the abolitionist John Brown.Published in 1909, it tells the story of John Brown, from his Christian rural upbringing, to his failed business ventures and finally his "blood feud" with the institution of slavery as a whole.
The book studies the early and middle years of Du Bois's life. It is the first in a two-part biography of W.E.B. Du Bois. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1994, as did Lewis's second installment, W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963, winning the Pulitzer in 2001. [1]
The Negro is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915 and released in electronic form by Project Gutenberg in 2011. [1] It is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Saharan cultures, including Great Zimbabwe, Ghana and Songhai, as well as covering the history of the slave trade and the history of Africans in the United States and the Caribbean.