Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace.

First Edition of Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace; Inscribed by W.E.B. Du Bois to His Wife Shirley

Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace.

DU BOIS, W.E.B..

Item Number: 7302

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1945.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois, “For Shirley WEBD.” From the library of Shirley Graham Du Bois. Ms. Du Bois was an American award-winning author, playwright, composer, and activist, and wife of W.E.B. Du Bois, whom she married in 1951. W.E.B. Du Bois is the author of The Souls of Black Folk, a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history. An outstanding association, linking these two great writers and activists of the twentieth century. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some toning the spine and a few small chips.

"Undoubtedly the most important modern African-American intellectual, Du Bois virtually invented modern African-American letters and gave form to the consciousness animating the work of practically all other modern African-American intellectuals to follow… he left Americans—black and white—a legacy of intellectual tools, a language with which they might analyze their present and imagine a future" (ANB).

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