W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (LOA #350)
An Essay Toward a History of the Part whichBlack Folk Played in the Attempt to ReconstructDemocracy in America, 1860–1880
A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War’s aftermath and the legacy of racism in America
Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois’s now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction—and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century, Du Bois brought all his intellectual powers to bear on the nation’s post-Civil War era of political reorganization, a time when African American progress was met with a white supremacist backlash and ultimately yielded to the consolidation of the unjust social order of Jim Crow.
Black Reconstruction is a pioneering work of revisionist scholarship that, in the wake of the censorship of…
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December 14, 2021William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was a historian, social scientist, journalist, and civil rights activist best known for his landmark 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. He was a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909 and served for many years as the editor of its monthly magazine, The Crisis.