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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.
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.
Written when he was 50, Darkwater is the first of Du Bois's three autobiographies and was followed by Dusk of Dawn: An Autobiography of a Race Concept, and The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of its First Century.
Du Bois' first published writing on Reconstruction was a 1901 Atlantic Monthly essay entitled "The Freedmen's Bureau", which was reprinted as the essay "Of the Dawn of Freedom" in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. [1] He also wrote about Reconstruction in his 1924 book The Gift of Black Folk. [2]
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 Philadelphia Negro is a sociological and epidemiological study of African Americans in Philadelphia that was written by W. E. B. Du Bois, commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and published in 1899 with the intent of identifying social problems present in the African American community.
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He also stated that it was "designed for all children, but especially for ours", with a target audience of children and youth between six and 16 years old. [6] Dill and Du Bois established Du Bois and Dill Publishers in New York City to publish each issue of The Brownies' Book. [7]