The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois | 
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin | 
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson | 
Areopagitica
by John Milton | 
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine | 
Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau | 
The Age Of Reason
by Thomas Paine | 
War and the Iliad
by Simone Weil | 
Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin | 
The Republic
by Plato | 
The Rebel
by Albert Camus | 
Democracy in America
by Alexis De Tocqueville | 
Eros the Bittersweet
by Anne Carson | 
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
The Gay Science
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes |
The Apology
by Plato | 
The Politics
by Aristotle | 
Between Past and Future
by Hannah Arendt | 
Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine |
The distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 80 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. Reflecting the author's ideas as a politician, historian, and artist, this volume has long moved and inspired readers with its militant cry for social, political, and economic reforms for black Americans. Essential reading for students of African-American history