The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and author, has a central place in American history and literature.
"Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folkoccupies this rare position." - Manning Marable.
"The boycott of the buses in Montgomery had many roots . . . but none more important than this little book of essays published more than half a century earlier." -- Saunders Redding
The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and author, has a central place in American hi...
2017 Reprint of 1899 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of African Americans in Philadelphia 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, it was the first sociological case study of a black community in the United States and one of the earliest examples of sociology as a statistically based social science. Du Bois began...
2017 Reprint of 1899 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The Philadelphia ...
In honor of the 150th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois's birth in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts Library has prepared a new edition of Du Bois's classic, The Souls of Black Folk. Originally published in 1903, Souls introduced a number of now-canonical terms into the American conversation about race.
In honor of the 150th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois's birth in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts Library has prepared a...
