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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85830741 Title: Black reconstruction in America : an essay toward a history of the part which Black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 Author: W E B Du Bois Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9780195325812 0195325818 9780195311808 0195311809 9780199385652 0199385653 OCLC:85830741

  
  

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Black reconstruction in America : an essay toward a history of the part which Black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880

Author:	W E B Du Bois
Publisher:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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. DuBois'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 works of history. The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois is a collection of Du Bois's works in 19 volumes. Each work is introduced by a brief essay by an eminent scholar and each volume includes a general introduction from the series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Spanning over a half-century, this collection is essential for anyone interested in African American history. First published in 1935, Black Reconstruction was the first full-length examination of the roles that black Americans played in the period after the Civil War. This groundbreaking book undermines the early twentieth-century understanding of blacks as either passive victims manipulated by greedy carpet-baggers and southern plantation owners alike, or more frequently as incompetent, lazy and immoral profiteers who threw away their only chance for equality and nearly destroyed the South in the process. By reconsidering well-known primary and secondary sources, Du Bois debunks prevailing myths about the black role in Reconstruction. He proves that considering the recently freed slaves' lack of experience, resources, and support they acted remarkably responsibly and intelligently in their new leadership roles. Du Bois argues that in the handful of years that blacks served as active members of southern governments, they successfully spread both the ideals of democracy and access to public education among poor blacks and whites. In fact, he convincingly demonstrates that the failure of the Reconstruction resulted from reactionary, racist, and greedy white coalitions in the South that wanted to re-enslave blacks and did their best to block racial uplift at every turn. As the new introduction by the Pulitzer Prize winning historian Professor David Levering Lewis makes clear, Black Reconstruction remains relevant for readers today. It continues to be one of the most thorough and ambitious histories written on the subject of the role of African Americans during one of the most hopeful, though ultimately tragic, period of American history. Black Reconstruction offers profound insights to anyone interested in the history of race relations in the United States, as well as those interested specifically in the history of black people in the South following the Civil War. It is a book that both students and teachers of history will find challenging and illuminating. (From Publisher Description).  Read more...
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Subjects	Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877. African Americans -- Politics and government -- 19th century. View all subjects
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