Marv Friedlander

Du Bois Speaks Marv Friedlander

It's time to see the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America for what they truly were: a cauldron of racial inequality, bigotry, and violence, with a lack of basic human rights for African Americans.

Du Bois Speaks is an insightful and unusual biographical approach to presenting the ideas and beliefs of early civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, who was also a historian, sociologist, and cofounder of the NAACP.

Author Marv Friedlander poses in-depth questions as if he were interviewing Du Bois-questions like "Why are black people denied service in hotels and restaurants, rebuffed from obtaining good jobs or adequate education, and refused opportunities to vote?"

The author then answers the questions using words from Du Bois's own speeches and writings. The result is comfortably conversational, as if Du Bois were actually in the room with him. The result is an intriguing history lesson as seen through the eyes of a man who lived it all.