316p; 367p; 349p. Gilt-titled green cloth. Book One: The Ordeal of Mansart; Book Two: Mansart Builds a School; Book Three: Worlds of Color

"These three volumes tell Du Bois' view of what it meant to be a Black man in the United States from 1876 to 1956. Historic figures--many of whom he knew well--appear under their own names, from Booker T. Washington to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from William Monroe Trotter to Harry Hopkins, from Florence Kelley to Kwame Nkrumah. Actual quotations from speeches, newspapers, books make the three volumes a goldmine of information; all this is ensconced within the life of Manuel Mansart, who in his thinking, is an approximation of Du Bois. In many ways this trilogy tells more of Du Bois--of what Du Bois thought about himself and the world in which he lived--than his more formal autobiographies which were published earlier and which were to be published after his death. These 1,100 pages were written by him in their first draft from 1955 through 1957; that is to say, when he was eighty-seven to eighty-nine years old." Aptheker. Annotated Bibliography... of W.E.B. Du Bois, no. 1970.

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