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W.E.B. Du Bois [videorecording] : a biography in four voices / a documentary by Louis Massiah ; produced in association with Scribe Video Center.

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Four prominent African-American writers each narrate a period in the life of the sociologist and author W.E.B. Du Bois, and describe his impact on their work. They chronicle Du Bois' role as a founder of the NAACP, organizer of the first Pan-African Congress, editor of Crisis, a journal of the...

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Corporate Authors: Scribe Video Center, California Newsreel (Firm)
Other Authors: Massiah, Louis (Producer, Director), Brown, Wesley, 1945- (Narrator), Davis, Thulani (Screenwriter, Narrator), Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 (Screenwriter, Narrator), Bambara, Toni Cade (Screenwriter, Narrator), Chin, Michael (director of photography.), Jafa, Arthur (director of photography.), Banks, Larry (director of photography.), Henriquez, Monica (Film editor), Warshafsky, Beth (Animator), Andrews, Dwight (Composer), Burrell, Dave, 1940- (Composer), Murray, David, 1955- (Composer)
Other title:Biography in four voices.
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : [San Francisco] : Scribe Video Center ; Distributed by California Newsreel, ©1997.
Subjects:
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > History.
Pan African Congress > History.
African American sociologists > Biography.
African American authors > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > History > 1877-1964.
Civil rights > United States > Biography.
United States > Race relations.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Historical films.
Table of Contents:
  • Black folk in the new century, 1895-1915 / narrated by Wesley Brown
  • The Crisis and the new Negro, 1919-1929 / written and narrated by Thulani Davis
  • A second Reconstruction? : 1934-1948 / written and narrated by Toni Cade Bambara
  • Color & democracy : colonies and peace 1949-1963 / written and narrated by Amiri Baraka.

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