High Schools, Public Libraries, HBCU & Qualifying Community Organization Discounted DVD License Without Streaming Rights $295.00 DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming In 1961, Kwame Nkrumah, the president of the newly independent African state of Ghana, invited him to participate in that country's development Du Bois accepted, living there for the remainder of his life.Ĭollege/Corporation/Gov't Agency DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming License He was indicted and for a time his passport was revoked. Part Four: Color, Democracy, Colonies and Peace (1949-1963)ĭu Bois' continuing anti-racist activism and growing leftist sympathies made him a target during the McCarthy years. It was now the Depression and he became more open to leftist ideology as reflected in his magnum opus, Black Reconstruction. Part Three: A Second Reconstruction? (1934-1948)ĭismissed from the editorship of The Crisis for his radical views, Du Bois was forced to resume his academic career at age 68. Du Bois also was a founder of the Pan African movement, organizing the first international congresses of leaders from Africa and the Diaspora. Part Two: The Crisis and the New Negro (1919-1929)ĭu Bois created the NAACP's magazine, The Crisis, which became a vital organ in the burgeoning African American cultural movement, the Harlem Renaissance. He co-founded the Niagara Movement and then the NAACP to agitate for full equality between blacks and whites. Washington's advocacy of accommodation to segregation. Du Bois emerged as the most outspoken critic of Booker T. During the same period, racism was institutionalized under the Jim Crow system. Part One: Black Folk and the New Century (1895-1915)ĭu Bois' first sociological work, The Philadelphia Negro, and, even more, The Souls of Black Folk, examined the cultural and political psychology of the American African Diaspora. Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka narrate successive periods of Du Bois' life and discuss its impact on their work. His contributions and legacy have been so far-reaching, that this, his first film biography, required the collaboration of four prominent African American writers. Born three years after the end of the Civil War, Du Bois witnessed the imposition of Jim Crow, its defeat by the Civil Rights Movement and the triumph of African independence struggles.ĭu Bois was the consummate scholar-activist whose path-breaking works remain among the most significant and articulate ever produced on the subject of race. William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B) Du Bois (1868-1963) offers unique insights into an eventful century in African American history. Producer/Director: Louis Massiah, Writer/Narrators: Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka DU BOIS:A BIOGRAPHY IN FOUR VOICESĭVD,DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal

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