Volume 19, Number 9 · November 30, 1972
W.E.B. DuBois and Black History
By Carolyn Gipson, Harold W. Cruse
His Day Is Marching On: A Memoir of W. E. B. DuBois
by Shirley Graham DuBois
Lippincott, 396 pp., $6.95
The Seventh Son: The Thoughts and Writings of W. E. B. DuBois
edited and with an introduction by Julius Lester
Random House, 815 pp., $3.95 each (paper)
W. E. B. DuBois: A Profile
edited by Rayford W. Logan
Hill & Wang, 324 pp., $6.50
The Black Titan: An Anthology
by the Editors of Freedomways
Beacon, 333 pp., $2.95 (paper)
W. E. B. DuBois was a distinguished American black scholar, the editor of the NAACP's magazine, The Crisis, from 1910 to 1934, and an active and outspoken writer on black questions during long years of political reaction in his country. Yet in spite of his obvious talents as a social critic, DuBois never commanded the influence to which he aspired and he died little known to the American public and neglected by scholars. Fortunately the story of his life is now being retold, with varying degrees of success, in a growing number of books and academic studies.
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