W.E.B. Du Bois : a biography in four voices / produced and directed by Louis Massiah.

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Born three years after the end of the Civil War, Du Bois witnessed the imposition of Jim Crow, its defeat by the Civil Rights Movement and the triumph of African independence struggles. Du Bois was the consummate scholar-activist whose path-breaking works remain among the most significant and articu...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: California Newsreel (Firm) (Film distributor)
Kanopy (Firm) (Film distributor)
Other Authors: Massiah, Louis (Film director, Producer)
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Brown, Wesley, 1945-
Davis, Thulani
Bambara, Toni Cade
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
Subjects:
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963.
African American sociologists > Biography.
African American authors > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > History.
Pan African Congress > History.
United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > 20th century.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource via Kanopy - MSU authorized users (kanopy)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (115 min.)) : sound, color and black and white
Variant Title:
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
Born three years after the end of the Civil War, Du Bois witnessed the imposition of Jim Crow, its defeat by the Civil Rights Movement and the triumph of African independence struggles. Du Bois was the consummate scholar-activist whose path-breaking works remain among the most significant and articulate ever produced on the subject of race. In this, his first film biography, four prominent African American writers, Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka, narrate successive periods of Du Bois' life and discuss his impact on their work.
Note:Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995 and distributed by California Newsreel.
Electronic resource.
Call Number:E185.97.D73 W163 2016 Online
Source of Description:
Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Kanopy, viewed May 13, 2019).