James Campbell: So, during that 85-plus years of writing, he produced three novels, four novels, several classic works of nonfiction, he edited several newspapers, including The Crisis, the NAACP’s monthly magazine, which was sort of his personal broadsheet for the better part of 25 years, he wrote poetry, he published a short book of prayers. His final autobiography was published after his death. He continued publishing until he died-and beyond. Du Bois began his writing career at the age of 12, when he became his town’s correspondent for the New York Age, the largest Black newspaper in the country at the time. During most of that 95 years, he was writing. He died 95 years later as an exile in Ghana, in West Africa, the night before Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington. He took pride in noting that he was born during radical reconstruction, the same week that Andrew Johnson was impeached. He may be the most prolific writer that this country has ever produced. James Campbell: Let me start by telling you a little bit about Du Bois, who I think, um, is not as well known or remembered today as perhaps he ought to be.
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