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Franklin Library leather edition of W.E.B. Du Bois's "Dusk of Dawn: An Essay toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept," a Limited edition, Illustrated by ROMARE BEARDEN, one of the 100 GREATEST MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE series, published in 1980. Bound in navy blue leather, the book has matching French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges----in near FINE condition. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, who lived from 1868---1963, was born in Massachusetts, educated at FISK UNIVERSITY in Nashville and HARVARD UNIVERSITY, where studied under Charles Eliot Norton, William James and George Santayana. He earned a PhD at Harvard---the first African American to do so. Du Bois taught at Wilberforce University and Atlanta University. He became the first editor of CRISIS magazine and the elder spokesperson for the NAACP. Du Bois was opposed to what he called the "Tuskegee Machine," a reference to Booker T. Washington's college that emphasized the "mechanical arts" and encouraged the black students to be deferential to white folks who visited the campus. ROMARE BEARDEN, who illustrated this volume, was the most famous African American artist of his day. 355 pages, including an Index. I offer Combined shipping.