W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

This monumental biography—eight years in the research and writing—treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 735 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Ralph Ellison: A Biography Shares biography, African American, nonfiction
  2. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Shares biography, nonfiction, history
  3. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, JR., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Shares biography, history, nonfiction
  4. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather Shares biography, pulitzer, history

“People who read W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  2. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
  3. The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston
  4. Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe

“If you want more of the same (biography about african american), start with these.”

  1. Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
  2. Mirror to America
  3. Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
  4. Nigger

“If it was the history that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Rosa Parks: A Life
  2. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
  3. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
  4. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Jefferson and the Rights of Man
  2. The Life and Music of Nick Cave
  3. Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
  4. Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty