Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-169) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Revolutionary Lives Matter: Reclaiming W.E.B. Du Bois For Our Time -- Part I: Racial Uplift and the Reform Era -- 1. Childhood, Youth and Education in an Age of Reform -- 2. Becoming a Scholar and Activist -- 3. Socialism, Activism and World War I -- Part II: From Moscow to Manchester: 1917-1945 -- 4. Du Bois and the Russian Revolution -- 5. The Depression, Black Reconstruction, and Du Boiśs Asia Turn -- 6. Pan-Africanism or Communism? -- Part III: Revolution and the Cold War 1945-1963 -- 7. Wrestling with the Cold War, Stalinism, and the Blacklist -- 8. The East is Red: Supporting Revolutions in Asia -- 9. Final Years, Exile, Death and Legacy.
Summary:
On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, "I Have a Dream", the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a close in Accra, Ghana. W.E.B. Du Bois was born in Massachusetts in 1868, just three years after formal emancipation of Americás slaves. In his extraordinarily long and active political life, he would emerge as the first black man to earn a PhD from Harvard; surpass Booker T. Washington as the leading advocate for African American rights; co-found the NAACP, and involve himself in anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggles across Asia and Africa. In this new biography, Bill V. Mullen interprets the seismic political developments of the Twentieth Century through the revolutionary life of W.E.B. Du Bois -- focusing not just on his Civil Rights work, but also examining Du Bois's attitudes towards socialism, the USSR, Chinás Communist Revolution, and the relationship between capitalism, poverty and racism.--Publisher website.
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