Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

Title: Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War Author: Chad L Williams ISBN: 9781250321916 Publisher: Picador Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1607552 Publisher Description: The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I--and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Seeking both intellectual clarity and personal atonement, for more than two decades Du Bois attempted to write the definitive history of Black participation in World War I. His book, however, would never