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Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
Race Woman The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois Author:Gerald Horne "Horne's writing handsomely communicates the artistic, political and social climate of the world that created the multidimensional Graham Du Bois... You will not want to put it down." Black Issues Book Review "A fascinating account of the extraordinary life of W. E. B. Du Bois's widow: a complex, creative woman who lived a colorf... more »ul, meaningful life." Essence "Horne is the first biographer to grant Shirley Graham Du Bois her due." Boston Globe "Gerald Horne rescues Shirley Graham Du Bois from historical obscurity and from the shadow of her husband." The Women's Review of Books One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twentieth century, Shirley Graham Du Bois also remains one of the least studied and understood. In Race Woman, Gerald Horne draws a revealing portrait of this controvertial figure who championed the civil rights movement in America, the liberation struggles in Africa and the socialist struggles in Maoist China. Through careful analysis and use of personal correspondence, interviews, and previously unexamined documents, Horne explors her work as a Harlem Renaissance playwright, biographer, composer, teacher, novelist, Left political activist, advisor and inspiration, who was a powerful historical actor.« less