W. E. B. Du Bois: A Twentieth-Century Life, Bolden, Tonya
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W. E. B. Du Bois: A Twentieth-Century Life
Authors: Bolden, Tonya
Genres: Biography
Topics: Civil Rights Movement, African American History/Interest
Lexile: 1070,
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
BISAC/Subject: YAN006040, YAN038110, YAN025220
ISBN: 9781440688256, Related ISBNs: 0670063029, 1440688257, 9780670063024, 9781440688256
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 224,
Audience: Young adult
Synopsis: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, perhaps best known for his seminal work The Souls of Black Folk and as the founding editor of the NAACP?s groundbreaking magazine The Crisis, was ever a soul in motion for justice. Whether he was protesting Jim Crow laws and lynch mobs in the Deep South, advocating for the end of European Colonialism, or campaigning for world peace, Du Bois was always speaking out for others.

This fascinating Up Close biography by award-winning author Tonya Bolden tells the story of how one man?tirelessly and never quietly? fought for equality until his death at age ninety-five.

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