A small nation of people : W.E.B. Du Bois and African American portraits of progress Cover Image

A small nation of people : W.E.B. Du Bois and African American portraits of progress / The Library of Congress ; with essays by David Levering Lewis and Deborah Willis.

Lewis, David Levering, 1936- (Added Author). Willis, Deborah, 1948- (Added Author). Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) (Added Author). Library of Congress. (Added Author).

Summary:

A photographic history of African-American progress, originally displayed at the 1900 International Exposition in Paris, features African-American businesspeople, students, families, and people of faith, in a collection complemented by a series of essays.

Record details

ISBN: 0060523425
ISBN: 9780060523428
Physical Description: 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : Amistad, [2003]
Copyright: ©2003

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes 150 of the photographs that W.E.B. Du Bois included in his display on African Americans in Georgia exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exposition. These photographs are part of the Daniel Murray Collection at the Library of Congress.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-200).
Formatted Contents Note:	Small nation of people : W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Americans at the turn of the twentieth century / David Levering Lewis -- Sociologist's eye : W.E.B. Du Bois and the Paris Exposition / Deborah Willis -- Selections from the photographs at the Exposition des Nègres d'Amérique, "Exhibit of American Negroes," Paris Exposition, 1900