68. The Problem of the Color Line: Introducing the Twentieth Century

By exploring the work and activities of W.E.B. Du Bois around the turn of the twentieth century, we introduce some of the themes of our coverage of that century.

• The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-day (New York: 1903).

• W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (Chicago: 1903).

• A.M. Duster (ed.), Crusade for Justice: the Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Chicago: 1970).

• B. Sylvain, Du sort des indigènes dans les colonies d'exploitation (Paris: 1901).

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• D.L. Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (New York: 1993).

• D.L. Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (New York: 2001).

• M. Sherwood, Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora (London: 2010).