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Books by Du Bois
The
Suppression of the African
Slave Trade (1896) /
The
Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899) /
The
Souls of Black Folk:
Essays and Sketches
(1903) /
John
Brown.(1909) /
The
Quest of the Silver Fleece
(1911) /
Darkwater:
Voices Within the Veil
(1920)
Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making
of America (1924) /
Dark Princess: A Romance
(1928) /
Black Reconstruction in America
(1935) /
Black Folk, Then and Now
(1939)
Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace
(1945) /
The World and Africa: An Inquiry
(1947) /
In Battle for Peace
(1952) /
A Trilogy:
The Ordeal of Monsart
(1957)
Monsart Builds
a School (1959) nd
Worlds of Color (1961)
/
An ABC of Color:
Selections (1963)
The
Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing
My Life from the Last
Decade of Its First
Century
(1968)
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Shirley Graham Du Bois,
His Day Is Marching On: A Memoir of
W.E. B. Du Bois (1971)
Leslie Alexander Lacy.
The Life of W.E.B. Du Bois:
Cheer the Lonesome Traveler (1970)
Du
Bois on Reform: Periodical-based
Leadership for African Americans. Edited and Introduced
by Brian Johnson. New York Altamira Press (A Division of Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), 2005
A Du Bois Bibliography
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DuBois' Credo or Affirmation of
Faith
New York -- October 6, 1904
I believe in God who made of one blood all races
that dwell on earth. I believe that all men, black and brown,
and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity,
in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential
particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite
development.
Especially do I believe in the Negro Race; in the beauty of
its genius, the sweetness of its soul, and its strength in that
meekness which shall inherit this turbulent earth.
I believe in pride of race and lineage itself; in pride of
self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of
lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race
so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg
wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in
Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.
I believe in Service--humble reverent service, from the
blackening of boots to the whitening of souls; for Work is
Heaven, idleness hell, and Wages is the "Well done!"
of the Master who summoned all them that labor and are heavy
laden, making no distinction between the black sweating cotton
hands of Georgia and the First Families of Virginia, since all
distinctions not based on deed is devilish and not divine.
I believe in the Devil and his angels, who wantonly work to
narrow the opportunity of struggling human beings, especially if
they be black, who spit in the faces of the fallen, strike them
that cannot strike again, believe the worst and work to prove
it, hating the image which their Maker stamped on a brother's
soul.
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is
Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the
tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong; and I believe
that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations
white and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
I believe in Liberty for all men; the space to stretch their
arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to
vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine
and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking,
dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of God and love.
I believe in the training of children black even as white;
the leading out of little souls into the green pastures and
beside the still waters, not for pelf or peace, but for Life lit
by some large vision of beauty and goodness and truth. . . .
Finally, I believe in Patience--patience with the weakness of
the Weak and the strength of the Strong, the prejudice of the
Ignorant and the ignorance of the Blind; patience with the tardy
triumph of Joy and the mad chastening of Sorrow--patience with
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