TY - BOOK ID - 77900348 TI - Black folk then and now PY - 2007 SN - 0199383243 0199383235 9780199383238 9780195311808 0195311809 9780195325829 0195325826 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Black race. KW - Blacks. KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - Negro race KW - Race KW - Black persons KW - Blacks KW - Black people. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77900348 AB - W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several ER -