Multimedia Collection
W.E.B Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices
VHS
116 minutes
E185.97 .D73 W231 1995
This is the first film biography of a man who towered over African American history for nearly a century, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). His remarkable career as a scholar-activist stretched from the end of Reconstruction to the imposition of Jim Crow, its eventual defeat by the Civil Rights Movement and the successful independence struggles of the African continent.
In this film, four prominent African American writers, Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka, each narrate a period of his life and describe his impact on their work. They chronicle Du Bois' role as a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., organizer of the first Pan-African Congress, editor of the Crisis, a leading journal of the black cultural renaissance and author of a string of landmark sociological studies including The Souls of Black Folk.
Anathematized during the McCarthy period, Du Bois was invited in 1961 to help in the reconstruction of Ghana, the first independant African state. He went into exile, living in Accra until his death two years later.
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