Books with title The Negro: Black History and the African Diaspora

A true classic by early civil rights activist, intellectual, and head of the NAACP, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. W.E.B. Du Bois earned his first degree in 1888 at Fisk University, and went on the receive degrees from Harvard and the University of Berlin in Germany. Du Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. In "The Negro", Du Bois traces the origins of the African race, it's influence in world history, studies the history of race relations throughout the ages,and the African Diaspora to the Americas during the slave trade of previous centuries. He also studies the lasting impact of slavery on the African American mindset, and also provided a role model for future generations.