Identifier: negroinliterat00braw (find matches)
Title: The Negro in literature and art in the United States
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939
Subjects: African American authors African American artists African American musicians American literature -- African American authors History and criticism
Publisher: New York, Duffield & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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riters whodesire to treat, in the guise of fiction, the manysearching questions that one meets to-day inthe life of the South. W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDTDUBOIS was born February 23, 1868,at Great Barrington, Mass. He received thedegree of Bachelor of Arts at Fisk Universityin 1888, the same degree at Harvard in 1890,that of Master of Arts at Harvard in 1891,and, after a season of study at the Universityof Berlin, received also the degree of Doctorof Philosophy at Harvard in 1895, his thesisbeing his exhaustive study, Suppression ofthe Slave-Trade/ Dr. DuBois taught for abrief period at Wilberforce University, and wasalso for a time an assistant and fellow in Soci-ology at the University of Pennsylvania, pro-ducing in 1899 his study, The PhiladelphiaNegro. In 1896 he accepted the professor-ship of History and Economics at AtlantaUniversity, the position which he left in 1910to become Director of Publicity and Researchfor the National Association for the Advance- 50
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W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS (I . W. E. Burghardt DuBois 51 ment of Colored People. In connection withthis work he has edited the Crisis since thebeginning of that publication. He has madevarious investigations, frequently for the na-tional government, and has contributed manysociological studies to leading magazines. Hehas been the moving spirit of the AtlantaConference, and by the Studies of NegroProblems, which he has edited at Atlanta Uni-versity, he has become recognized as one ofthe great sociologists of the day, and as theman who more than anyone else has givenscientific accuracy to studies relating to theNegro. Aside from his more technical studies (theseincluding the masterly little book, The Ne-gro, in Holts Home University LibrarySeries), Dr. DuBois has written three bookswhich call for consideration in a review ofNegro literature. Of these one is a biography,one a novel, and the other a collection of essays.In 1909 was published John Brown, a con-tribution to the series of Amer

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