W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography 1868-1963

by David Levering Lewis

The second volume in a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, the leading figure of the civil rights movement in America, by the historian David Levering Lewis. The first volume, W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, won in 1994. Levering Lewis told PBS: “I stopped volume one… at the end of World War I, when Dubois was midstream in his life. He would live, until 1963, a life as full as the years antecedent to the time that I interrupted. I wanted to take Dubois out of […] quite focused concerns about one group of people, and put him in a larger forum in which he becomes concerned about equality and economic justice for people of all colors everywhere.”