Word: boise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DUSK OF DAWN-W. E. B. Du Bois-Harcourt, Brace ($3).
Dusk of Dawn is the autobiography of a Negro whose lifelong attempt has been to ease friction between U. S. whites and blacks. In William E. Burghardt Du Bois's youth the faith of the nation was Progress. The faith of his college, the Harvard University of 1890, was...
In 1909 the home town of Emancipator Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Ill., was the scene of race riots, a lynching. Du Bois lost faith in Science and Progress, dropped tiis research at Atlanta University for a new policy: Propaganda. He founded a crusading monthly, The Crisis, became an xecutive of the...
By 1932 Du Bois thought he saw two world trends: 1) the waning of capitalism; 2) the waning concept of man as a rational being. From these he derived a new program for U. S. Negroes: 1) cooperative action among Negro consumers, building toward industrial democracy, i.e., socialism; 2) recognition...
In the colony at Mystic is Robert Brackman, 41, outspoken foe of "modern" art, a National Academy member, who is well off with 53 summer students, gets fat prices for his female nudes, and in his portrait work can afford to turn down women, paint only men whose faces he...