Print is Dead Book

Prayers, homilies, and inspirational pieces by the noted Black leader, all composed in 1909 and 1910 and directed to children and young adults, reflect their author's values, hopes, and aspirations

"This beautifully prepared volume contains seventy-one short prayers Du Bois wrote between 1909 and the spring of 1910 for the pupils of the primary and secondary schools and the University students at Atlanta University. Herbert Aptheker prepared them for publication from the original scraps of paper and has written a

W. E. B. Du Bois is the founding figure of the sociological study of the Black Church. His discussion of the six functions of Philadelphia’s Black Church in The Philadelphia Negro (1899) represented an early example of a “functional analysis” of a religious group. In The Negro Church (1903), he

W.E.B. Du Bois shaped 20th century America to an extent rivaled by few others. The first black to receive a Ph. D. from Harvard, he helped create the discipline of sociology and was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Martin Luther

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.