Lewis is the author of several acclaimed books including King, A Biography (Praeger, 1970), When Harlem Was in Vogue (Alfred Knopf, Inc., 1971), The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988) and W.E.B. Lewis currently holds the Martin Luther King Jr. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. History from Columbia University and a Ph.D. The Los Angeles Times Book Review calls it “a work of keen scholarship that will appeal to the general reader responsive to graceful, lucid prose by an author with an eye for ironic situations and complex emotions.”īorn in Little Rock, Arkansas, Lewis attended Fisk University where he received his B.A. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963.įifteen years in the making, this second volume of Lewis’ profoundly detailed analysis of Du Bois’ life follows the controversial American icon from the race riots of 1919’s “Red Summer” through his controversial departure from the NAACP and his embrace of socialism, to his tumultuous self-imposed exile and death in Ghana at the age of 95. Du Bois, is examined in David Levering Lewis’ W.E.B. The life of scholar, philosopher, activist and historian, W.E.B.
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