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by: Bonnie Hinman
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Binding: Library Binding
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8960730092
EAN: 9781931798457
ISBN: 1931798451
Label: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Manufacturer: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: February 28, 2005
Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 1962847
Studio: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Eye opening
This a biography of one of the original founder of the Civil Rights movement. W.E.B. Du Bois(William Edward Burghardt). He was born in Massachusetts in 1868. He grew up with his mother and brother. His father had left when he was quite young. It was soon found out how smart and intelligent he was that he eventually skipped a grade. He did not see the extreme prejudice of being black till he enrolled at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. He eventually became professor, writer, speaker and social ... Read More
Rating:  - Focuses on his basic convictions
A Stranger In My Own House: The Story Of W.E.B. Di Bpod by Bonnie Hinman joins other biographies for this age group with a difference: it focuses on his basic convictions that political and economic equality equaled a voluntary segregation as a means to achieving these goals. Chapters follow his press for the liberation of blacks around the world, and reveal the foundations for many of his controversial beliefs. Also an important guide.
Rating: - Making DuBois Real
W.E.B. DuBois - pioneering sociologist, historian, professor, writer, editor, speaker, social activist, founding member of the NAACP and world traveler - has become an icon, and as such, rather unapproachable. Bonnie Hinman brings his work, passions and even his doubts to life, making him real.
She also navigates deftly through the complex social history of the era, which during DuBois lifetime ranged from Reconstruction to the early 1960's. This is particularly commendable, as too often ... Read More
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