At the time it was a monumental achievement, 85 years later it is still very much so.
I decided to buy both and started with the oldest book published in 1935.ĭu Bois published Black Reconstruction in America (BRIA) 85 years ago. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America and Rayford Logan’s The Betrayal of the Negro. Gates in his book mentioned that the two books that shaped his views on the Reconstruction period were W.E.B. It was really good but after I finished it I still wanted to learn more about Reconstruction. This summer I read Henry Louis Gates’s book Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. citizenship at the end of his life, dying in his adopted country of Ghana. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer." Du Bois became a member of the Communist Party and officially repudiated his U.S. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. In "On Christianity," a posthumously published essay, Du Bois critiqued the black church: " The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. The black nationalist expanded his interests to global concerns, and is called the "father of Pan-Africanism" for organizing international black congresses.Īlthough he used some religious metaphor and expressions in some of his books and writings, Du Bois called himself a freethinker. Du Bois turned "Crisis" into the foremost black literary journal. Du Bois was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and edited the NAACP's official journal, "Crisis," from 1910 to 1934. The Souls of Black Folk (1903) made his name, in which he urged black Americans to stand up for their educational and economic rights. He taught economics and history at Atlanta University from 1897-1910.
Du Bois studied at the University of Berlin, then earned his doctorate in history from Harvard in 1894. He attended Fisk College in Nashville, then earned his BA in 1890 and his MS in 1891 from Harvard. In 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced 'doo-boyz') was born in Massachusetts.
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