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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: Nella Larsen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hazel R. O'Leary, Marion Barry, Ida B. Wells, John Lewis, John Hope Franklin, James W. Ford, James Weldon Johnson, Mandisa, Nikki Giovanni, Alcee Hastings, Melvin B. Tolson, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Diane Nash, Aaron Douglas, Julius Lester, Louis George Gregory, Louis E. Martin, Tom Wilson, Cleo W. Blackburn, David Levering Lewis, Jimmie Lunceford, Wade H. McCree, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Ella Mae Johnson, Bobby William Austin, Frederica Wilson, Leonard Jackson, Constance Baker Motley, William L. Dawson, Charles Diggs, Sylvia del Villard, Joseph H. Howard, Johnnetta B. Cole, Ron Walters, John Wesley Work III, Charles Ramsey, Kym Whitley, Etta Zuber Falconer, Henry Alvin Cameron, Roland Hayes, Ronnie Greer, Charles H. Wesley, Theo Mitchell, J.O. Patterson, Jr., Mathew Knowles, George Padmore, Ben Jobe, Rachel B. Noel, Lewis Wade Jones, Leslie Meek, St. Elmo Brady, Judith Jamison, Wilson Frost, Undine Smith Moore, Victor O. Frazer, John Wesley Work, Jr., Rel Dowdell, Terry Adkins, Cora Brown, Helen Phillips, Amyre Makupson, Calvin C. Hernton, Otis Boykin, Willie Smith, Robert James, Paul Webster, Alma Powell, Neal Craig. Excerpt: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (; February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an intellectual leader in the United States as a sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. Biographer David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism-scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity." Born in Massachusetts, Du Bois graduated from Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D in...