An updated assessment of the political career of Dr. King and of his significance as a political leader.

"A major study...one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun."—The New York Times Book Review.

Lewis charts the second half of Du Bois's career, from the end of World War I on.

A clear portrait of a fifty-year period in the career of the premier architect of the civil rights movement in the U.S. and how Du Boois changed the way Americans think about themselves.

W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 received the Bancroft, Parkman, and Pulitzer Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The States and the Nation Series, of which this volume is a part, is designed to assist the American people in a serious look at the ideals they have espoused and the experiences they have undergone in the history of the nation.

One hundred-fifty works by African-American artists in Harlem during the 1920s from the exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem.