W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was a writer, civil rights activist, scholar, and editor who brought fundamental changes to American race relations through his writings, speeches, and public debates.
This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstru...[SEE MORE]