W.E.B. Du Bois Fifty Years after the March on Washington

This Humanities Forum is the Annual Du Bois Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies. The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis’s field is comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes. Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies.