The essential writings of Du Bois have been selected and edited by David Levering Lewis, his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.
Introduction
I. Race Concepts and the World of Color
"Jefferson Davis as a Representative of Civilization"
"The Conservation of Races"
"Of Our Spiritual Strivings"
"Of the Meaning of Progress"
"The Color Line Belts the World"
"The First Universal Races Congress"
"The Negro Problems"
"The Gift of the Spirit"
"The Black Man Brings His Gifts"
"The Negro College"
"On Being Ashamed of Oneself: An Essay on Race Pride"
"The Present Plight of the German Jew"
"Japanese Colonialism"
"Shanghai"
"Japan, Color, and Afro-Americans"
"Negroes Have an Old Culture"
"Gandhi and the American Negroes"
"China and Africa"
II. Personal Loyalties, Reflections, and Creative Pieces
"Of the Passing of the First-Born"
"Credo"
"The Song of the Smoke"
"The Case"
"Howells and Black Folk"
"The Shadow of Years"
"Charles Young"
"The United Nations"
"So the Girl Marries"
"Immortality"
"William Monroe Trotter"
"As the Crow Flies"
"I Bury My Wife"
"A Vista of Ninety Fruitful Years"
III. Social Science and Civil Rights
"Economics"
"Methodology"
"The Meaning of All This"
"The Laboratory in Sociology at Atlanta University"
"The Call of Kansas"
"Reconstruction and Its Benefits"
"American Negro Slavery by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips"
"Race Intelligence"
"The Negro Encyclopedia"
"The Propaganda of History"
"Apology"
"The Negro Family in the United States by E. Franklin Frazier"
"The World and Africa"
IV. Institutions: Family, Church, College, Business
"The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia"
"Atlanta University"
"The Upbuilding of Black Durham"
"The Negro Church"
"Negro Education"
"Gifts and Education"
"A Negro Student at Harvard at the End of the Nineteenth Century"
V. Women's Rights
"The Burden of Black Women"
"The Black Mother"
"Hail Columbia!"
"Woman Suffrage"
"The Damnation of Women"
"Sex and Racism"
VI. Race, Class, and Leadership: The Talented Tenth; Booker T. Washington; Marcus Garvey; Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Others
"Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
"The Parting of the Ways"
"Back to Africa"
"A Lunatic or a Traitor"
"Marcus Garvey and the NAACP"
"Leadership is Vital"
"The Talented Tenth: Memorial Address"
"The Present Leadership of American Negroes"
"Will the Great Gandhi Live Again?"
"Crusader Without Violence"
VII. Niagara, the NAACP, and Civil Rights
"The Niagara Movement: Address to the Country"
"NAACP"
"Social Equality and Racial Intermarriage"
"On Being Crazy"
"The Tuskegee Hospital"
"The Armenia Conference"
"Propaganda and the World War"
"Doubts Gandhi Plan"
"The Negro Since 1900: A Progress Report"
"What Is the Meaning of 'All Deliberate Speed'?"
"A Program of Reason, Right and Justice for Today"
"China"
VIII. White Supremacy and National Politics
"A Litany of Atlanta"
"Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson"
"Houston"
"The Arkansas Riots"
"The Souls of White Folk"
"Haiti"
"Reduced Representation in Congress"
"The Superior Race"
"Lynchings"
"An Estimate of FDR"
"From McKinley to Wallace: My Fifty Years as an Independent"
IX. The Politics and Propaganda of Arts and Letters
"Jesus Christ in Texas"
"The Younger Literary Movement"
"A Negro Art Renaissance"
"Criteria of Negro Art"
"On Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven"
"Mencken"
"Passing by Nella Larsen"
"Black No More by George S. Schuyler"
X. Labor in Black and White
"Brothers, Come North"
"The Negro and Radical Thought"
"The American Federation of Labor and the Negro"
"Marxism and the Negro Problem"
"Behold the Land"
XI. Separatist Solutions
"The Class Struggle"
"Segregation"
"Separation and Self-Respect"
"A Negro Nation Within the Nation"
"The C.M.A. Stores"
XII. Radical Thought: Socialism and Communism
"Socialism and the Negro Problem"
"Russia, 1926"
"The Negro and Communism"
"The Black Worker"
"Lifting from the Bottom"
"My Evolving Program for Negro Freedom"
"'There Must Come a Vast Social Change in the United States'"
"Negroes and the Crisis of Capitalism in the United States"
"The Vast Miracle of China Today"
"Application for Membership in the Communist Party of the United States of America"
XIII. Africa, Pan-Africa, and Imperialism
"To the Nations of the World"
"The African Roots of the War"
"The Negro's Fatherland"
"'What is Africa to Me?'"
"Africa for the Africans"
"A Secondary Journey to Pan-Africa"
"Little Portraits of Africa"
"The Pan-Africa Congresses: The Story of a Growing Movement"
"The Disenfranchised Colonies"
"On Britain and Africa"
"Whites in Africa After Negro Autonomy"
XIV. War and Peace
"Close Ranks"
"An Essay Toward a History of the Black Man in the Great War"
"Germany and Hitler"
"Africa"
"Closing Ranks Again"
"The Negro and the War"
"Negro's War Gains and Losses"
XV. The Cold War
"Peace: Freedom's Road for Oppressed Peoples"
"None Who Saw Paris Will Ever Forget"
"Opposition to Military Assistance Act of 1949"
"Russophobia"
"The Marshall Plan"
"The Trial"
"My Campaign for Senator"
0 "The Rosenbergs: Ethel and Michael, Robert and Julius"
"On Stalin"
"The Real Reason Behind Robeson's Persecution"
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