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Pages in category "Works by W. E. B. Du Bois" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to Alfred and Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois. [3] Mary Silvina Burghardt's family was part of the very small free black population of Great Barrington and had long owned land in the state.
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The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been published earlier in The Atlantic Monthly.
The W. E. B. Du Bois Library holds resources primarily in humanities and social and behavioral sciences. At 28 stories and 286 feet 4 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (roughly 88 m) tall, it is the third-tallest library in the world after the National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta at 414 feet (126 m) and Shanghai Library in China at 348 feet (106 m).
The publisher of his most recent novel said it was ‘deeply disturbed’ by the allegations and decided to ‘immediately suspend all promotion and sales’ of his books
DuBois said the books still hold up because of the characters. "People still read the old fiction from the '40s, '50s and last century, it all comes down to the character story," he said.