Resources for Young People Learning about
W.E.B. Du Bois

Compiled by Leslie Kahn, Reference Librarian for the Newark Public Library

BOOKS DEVOTED TO DU BOIS

Cavan, Seamus. W.E.B. Du Bois and Racial Relations. Brookfield, CT:
Millbrook Press, 1993.

Hamilton, Virginia. W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography. New York: HarperCollins,
1972.

McKissack, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack. W.E.B. Du Bois. Danbury, CT:
Franklin Watts, 1990.

Stafford, Mark. W.E.B. Du Bois. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 1989.

Sterling, Dorothy and Quarles Bejamin. Lift Every Voice: The Lives of Booker T.
Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, and James Weldon Johnson, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.

REFERENCE MATERIALS
Look up “Du Bois, W.E.B.” in these sources:

African American Encyclopedia. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1993.

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
Ed. by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.

Contemporary Black Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992- .

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. New York: Macmillan
Reference, 2001.

Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1988-2000.

Kranz, Rachel. Biographical Dictionary of Black Americans. New York: Facts
on File, 1991.

Notable Black American Men. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999.

Toppin, Edgar A. A Biographical History of Blacks in America Since 1528. New
York: McKay, 1971.

“The Souls of Black Folk,” in Nonfiction Classics for Students, vol. 1. Ed.by
Elizabeth Thomason. Detroit, 2001.

“W.E.B. Du Bois.” Political & Social Leaders of American, 1850-1914. Great
Neck Publishing, 2002; Ebsco MasterFILE Premier Publications database.