Prayers for Dark People

by W.E.B. Du Bois

Book Overview

A collection of prayers written by Du Bois for students at Atlanta University, thoughtfully compiled and introduced by Herbert Aptheker. These prayers are deeply commited to paying attention to and caring for the inner lives of black Americans. Biblical familiarity and agnosticity are both present in these autobiographical writings, uplifting the hopes and practices of W. E. B. Du Bois's life, while meditating on the still relevant question of how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870233033
• ISBN13: 9780870233036
• Release Date: August 1980
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Work from a Great Fisk Alumnus

This book was nothing like I expected. It is a collection of prayers DuBois had been writing his entire life. The astonishing fact about the collection is that he kept these works a secret until his final days in the United States. This is a mind motivating book and highly underrated. It can move the "souls of black folks." This thoughts have nothing to do with the fact he and I both graduated from Fisk University.

Great Work from a Great Fisk Alumnus

This book was nothing like I expected. It is a collection of prayers DuBois had been writing his entire life. The astonishing fact about the collection is that he kept these works a secret until his final days in the United States. This is a mind motivating book and highly underrated. It can move the "souls of black folk." This thoughts have nothing to do with the fact he and I both graduated from Fisk University.