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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 Science and Truth...
Negroes dislike twice-disillusioned Du Bois's newest plan because it accepts racial segregation. Whites dislike its Marxist economics. At 72, W. E. Burghardt Du Bois stands alone but not unrespected. When he broke with the N. A. A. C. P. in 1934, his colleagues conceded: "He created what never existed before, a Negro intelligentsia...
...Association published The Crisis, later to reach its peak of influence under the editorship of Atlanta University's scholarly VV. E. Burghardt Du Bois.* It circulated a news service to the Negro press, which now numbers over 200 papers and magazines. It lobbied for Negro legislation, and, when a post-War wave of lynchings carried off ten returned Negro soldiers in 1919 (two of them burned alive), it began to spend an increasing amount of its energy promoting State and then Federal anti-lynching laws. Palefaced Negro White did his job well. He talked to members of mobs that executed...
Among Dunbar tenants who awaited the disposition of these matters were Tap Dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, Sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Esquire Cartoonist E. Simms Campbell, Admiral Peary's North Pole Companion Matthew Henson, Chief James Williams of Grand Central Station redcaps...
BLACK RECONSTRUCTION-W. E. Burghardt Du Bois-Harcourt, Brace...