african american intellectuals

This outstanding biography details the life of W.E.B. Du Bois as well as his roles in the Niagara Movement and the NAACP.

Profiles the lives of three hundred notable African-American authors, artists, and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance; and features information on Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, the Scottsboro Boys, and others.

Presents fifty-one works by and interviews with late-twentieth-century activist and political writer Cornel West, covering such topics as African-American cultural politics, Marxist theory, Christian thought, the arts, and race relations, and includes autobiographical essays.

Two African-American Harvard professors reflect on the challenge issued by NAACP co-founder W.E.B DuBois to the formally educated, to help and serve the less fortunate of their race. Includes the complete text of DuBois's essay, The Talented Tenth, with his own critique, and biographical information on the influential leader.

Examines the life of African-American intellectual Cornel West, describing his childhood and education, and discussing his career as a college professor, his interest in music, and his efforts to support African-Americans and work toward better race relations.

A brief biography of the African American educator and activist who helped found the NAACP and worked much of his life for the unification of people of African descent.

Examines the life of African-American activist W.E.B. Du Bois, discussing his childhood in Massachusetts, his awakening to the plight of his people, his education and encounters with racism, his work as a teacher and as a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, his marriage, and his later years.

An introduction to the period in the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance, when the expression of African American creativity in many forms flourished.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that introduce the major writers and great works of the Harlem Renaissance, a period characterized by a flowering of African-American literature and other artistic endeavors.