W.E.B. Du Bois: Writings (Loa #34) - (Library of America) by W E B Du Bois (Hardcover)

The "Historian, Sociologist, Novelist, Editor, and Political Activist" Collection is a comprehensive volume that showcases the essential writings of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, one of the most influential black intellectuals of his time.

This collection includes his first book, "The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States 1638-1870," which provides a dispassionate account of how Americans tolerated the traffic in human beings until the bloody Civil War taught them the disastrous consequences of moral cowardice.

Du Bois's "The Souls of Black Folk" is a collection of beautifully written essays that narrate the cruelties of racism and celebrate the strength and pride of black America.

The book also pays tribute to black music and religion, explores the remarkable history of the Reconstruction Freedman's Bureau, assesses the career of Booker T.

Washington, and remembers the death of his infant son.

In "Dusk of Dawn," Du Bois describes his boyhood in western Massachusetts, his years at Fisk and Harvard universities, his study and travel abroad, his role in founding the NAACP, and his long association with it, as well as his emerging Pan-African consciousness.

This collection also includes Du Bois's influential essays and speeches that span the period from 1890 to 1958, recording his evolving positions on the issues that dominated his long, active life: education in a segregated society.