Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois

by Amy Bass

Book Overview

On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois died in exile in Ghana at the age of 95, more than a half century after cofounding the NAACP. Five years after his death, residents of Great Barrington, the small Massachusetts town where Du Bois was born in 1868, proposed recognizing his legacy through the creation of a memorial park on the site of his childhood home. Supported by the local newspaper and prominent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816644969
• ISBN13: 9780816644964
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.7"