![]() ![]() Du Bois and World War I, we learn about Du Bois’s forgotten project and gain a new appreciation for how World War I shaped Du Bois’s life, work and political evolution. According to Williams, Du Bois “devoted more than twenty years researching, writing and trying to complete the book.” He added, “For the first time, with my book - The Wounded World: W.E.B. He shared, Du Bois’s unfinished and unpublished manuscript on the Black experience in World War I-which is titled “The Black Man and the Wounded World”-would have been one of the sociologist’s most significant works. He is the author of the award-winning book Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era and the coeditor of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence. Given the nation’s familiarity and the significant number of books written about the venerable intellectual, I asked Williams what we can learn from his book and analysis. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race and W.E.B. Du Bois, an African American scholar, sociologist, historian, and activist, is familiar to many Americans in part due to David Levering Lewis’s two Pulitzer Prize winning biographies - W.E.B. one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). ![]() (Original Caption) William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963), American educator and writer and. ![]()
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