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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
April 25, 2003
Henry Louis Gates Jr. director, Du Bois Institute, Harvard [homepage]

The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University celebrates the centennial of a pivotal publication by inviting the public to hear writers, critics, and members of Harvard's faculty and administration read some of the many memorable passages from The Souls of Black Folk.

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois was published by A. C. McClurg & Co. in Chicago on April 18, 1903. One hundred years later, many still consider this series of essays to be the most influential book written by an African American in the 20th century. Du Bois was the first black man to receive a PhD from Harvard University and was one of the earliest founding members of the NAACP.

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African Meeting House Rededication Ceremony, Boston, Part 1
Beverly Morgan-Welch
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The African Meeting House, located in Beacon Hill, Boston, was built in 1806 by skilled African-American craftsmen, and was the center of Boston's African-American community for nearly one hundred years.
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John Biewen, author of Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, joins public radio favorites Ira Glass, Jay Allison, and the Kitchen Sisters for an intimate evening of stories and clips, and to discuss how they do what they do, and why.
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Editors John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting.
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Generations of Social Justice
Xernona Clayton
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This program invites two individuals, Xerona Clayton who worked with Dr Martin Luther King 50 years ago and today is the president of the foundation that presents the Trumpet Awards, a prestigious award ceremony which recognizes African American accomplishments and is sponsored by the Turner Broadca
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
Daniel Rasmussen
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Historian Daniel Rasmussen discusses his first book, American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt.
Mary Catherine Bateson: Composing a Further Life
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Anthropologist and expert on aging Mary Catherine Bateson discusses her book, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom.
Image of Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Author: Henry Louis Jr. Gates
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books (2010)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages
Image of Faces of America
Manufacturer: NYU Press
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Price: $21.50
Image of In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Crown (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages
Image of Colored People: A Memoir
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Vintage (1995)
Binding: Paperback, 240 pages
Image of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 2832 pages
Image of The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books (2003)
Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages
Image of Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1993)
Binding: Paperback, 199 pages
Image of Lincoln on Race and Slavery
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Publisher: Princeton University Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 396 pages
Image of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr
Publisher: Vintage (1998)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages
Image of The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1989)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
Image of The Future of the Race
Author: Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Vintage (1997)
Binding: Paperback, 224 pages

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