Boston Public Library Digitized by the Internet Archive 2017 with funding from in China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) https://archive.org/details/webduboisOOdavi Du E. B. Bois A Reader ALSO BY DAVID LEVERING LEWIS A King: Biography Prisoners ofHonor: The Dreyfus Affair A District ofColumbia: Bicentennial History When Harlem Was in Vogue Harlem Renaissance: Art ofBlack America (contributor) The Race to Fashoda: Colonialism and African Resistance W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography ofa Race, 1868-1919 The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (editor) W. E. B. Du Bois A Reader EDITED BY David Levering Lewis JOHN MACRAE BOOK A HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY NEW YORK Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Publishers since 866 1 1 1 5 West 18th Street ,New York, New York 10011 Henry Holt® is a registered trademark of Henry Holt and Company, Inc. © Copyright 1995 by David Levering Lewis All rights reserved. & Published in Canada by Fitzhenry Whiteside Ltd., 195 Allstate Parkway, Markham, Ontario L3R 4T8. Librar)' ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. [Selections. 1995] — W. E. B. Du Bois : a reader / edited by David Levering Lewis. 1st ed. cm. p. “A John Macrae book.” ---Includes bibliographical references. ans.^ 2. Africa. I. Lewis, David L. II. Title. 5--'" 1995 ' 94-23482 dc20 CIP ISBN 0-8050-3263-0 ISBN 0-8050-3264-9 (An Owl Book: pbk.) Henry Holt books are available for special promotions and premiums. For details contact: Director, Special Markets. — First Edition 1995 Printed in the United States ofAmerica All first editions are printed on acid-free paper. 00 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 pbk. TO THE SOLUTIONS OF THE CENTURY ST 2 1