Description: The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece."In this final magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, David Levering Lewis stunningly recreates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois's charged and brilliant career. Beginning with the return of World War I African American veterans to the riots and lynchings of the "Red Summer" of 1919 and ending with Du Bois's self-imposed exile and death in Ghana forty-four years later, Lewis charts the dramatic evolution of the premiere architect of the civil rights movement and of the movement itself.
Brief description: Courtney B. Vance is an award-winning actor who is a powerful presence from the stage to the screen. From his stunning portrayal of Johnnie Cochran in FX's The People vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story, to the beloved and pivotal Uncle George in HBO's critically acclaimed drama horror series Lovecraft Country, to his star turn in NatGeo's Genius: Aretha as Rev. C.L. Franklin, he has earned two Emmys, a Tony, a Critics Choice Award, a Black Reel TV Award, and multiple NAACP Image Awards, as well as SAG, Golden Globe, and Hollywood Critics Association nominations. He is the recipient of the Bounce Trumpet Awards Excellence in Entertainment Honor, the ABFF Honors Award for Excellence in the Arts, and he earned a Grammy nomination for his narration of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's book, Accessory to War.