He rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University.

Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. B.' Du Bois (1868 - 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil-rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. Long overdue for reconsideration, it is the latest installment of Restless Classics, featuring illustrations by master printmaker Steve Prince and a new introduction by Atlantic staff writer Vann R. Now, over fifty years after Du Bois's death and the Civil Rights Act, we need this seminal work more urgently than ever. In fourteen chapters that move fluidly between historical and sociological essays, song and poetry, personal recollection and fiction, The Souls of Black Folk frames 'the color line' as the central problem of the twentieth century and tries to answer the question, 'Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?' Striking in his psychological precision as well as his political foresight, Du Bois advanced ithe influential ideas of 'double-consciousness'-an inner conflict created by the seemingly irreconcilable 'black' and 'American' identities-and 'the veil,' through which African-Americans must see a spectrum of economic, social, and political opportunities entirely differently from their white counterparts'. Taking to the page, Du Bois produced a resounding declaration on the rights of the American man and laid out an agenda that was at the time radical but has since proven prophetic. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk fell into the hands of an American nation that had still not yet found 'peace from its sins.' With such deep disappointment among African-Americans still awaiting full emancipation, Du Bois believed that the moderate and conciliatory efforts of civil-rights leader Booker T. Published in 1903, exactly forty years after the Emancipation Proclamation, W.E.B. Newkirk II and stunning illustrations by the artist Steve Prince. Reconsidered for the era of Obama, Trump, and Black Lives Matter, the new edition includes an incisive introduction from rising cultural critic Vann R. Du Bois's seminal work of sociology, with searing insights into our complex, corrosive relationship with race and the African-American consciousness. Restless Classics presents The Souls of Black Folk W.

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