UMass Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Library, SCUA Du Bois Biography

W.E.B. Du Bois at Camp Litchfield, Me., ca.1940 The University of Massachusetts Press has published six volumes of W.E.B. Du Bois' selected correspondence and previously unpublished writings, edited by Herbert Aptheker:

Selected Correspondence, Volumes 1-3 (1973, 1976, 1978)
The Education of Black People (1973)
Prayers for Dark People (1980)
Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961 (1985)

The bulk of W.E.B. Du Bois' correspondence was microfilmed in 1980. The 79 reel set is widely available in research libraries, with an additional 10 reels of Du Bois' writings and other miscellaneous materials available in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives.

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Australia: Monash University
Bahamas: College of the Bahamas, Nassau
Canada: Trent University
Germany: Univeristät Köln
Ghana: Du Bois Memorial Centre, Accra, Ghana
Ireland: Ulster Polytechnic

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