David L. Lewis
Contributor
Website : David Levering Lewis at NYU
David Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and a professor of history at New York University. He has authored and edited some ten books and has received two Pulitzer Prizes (for his volumes on W.E.B. DuBois), the Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize.
Primary Contributions (1)
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in…
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Publications (3)
King: A Biography
Acclaimed by leading historians and critics when it appeared shortly after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this foundational biography wends through the corridors in which King held court, posing the right questions and providing a keen measure of the man whose career and mission enthrall scholars and general readers to this day. Updated with a new preface and more than a dozen photographs of King and his contemporaries, this edition presents the unforgettable story of King's life and death...
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Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
W.e.b. Du Bois ; With An Introduction By David Levering Lewis. Originally Published Under Title: Black Reconstruction. New York : Harcourt, Brace, C1935. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 731-737) And Index.
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography 1868-1963
The Two Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Biography Of W E B Du Bois From Renowned Scholar David Levering Lewis, Now In One Condensed And Updated Volume. Postlude To The Future -- Mary Silvina's Berkshire Prodigy -- The Age Of Miracles : Fisk And Josie's World -- The Age Of Miracles : Harvard And Lehrjahre -- Wilberforce : Book, Mentor, Marriage -- From Philadelphia To Atlanta -- Social Science, Tuskegee, And Clashing Temperaments -- Going Over Niagara, The Souls Of Black Folk, And Booker T. Washington...
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