The Childhood of W.E.B. DuBois:
And His Early Evolvement

A Drawing Book for Self Expression

Compiled & Edited By Leon Dixon

(Based the books Darkwater, Dusk of Dawn, & The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois, by W.E.B. Du Bois, and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1910 by David Levering Lewis)

    CONTENTS

  1. Hello
  2. My Birthplace
  3. About Reconstruction
  4. The Maternal Side Of My Family
  5. Of Tom Burghardt
  6. The Black Burghardts
  7. Of My Parents
  8. Moving to Great Barrington
  9. Hard Times
  10. Our First Public High School
  11. In Elementary School
  12. Having to Move Again
  13. My Mother's Advice
  14. My Pre-teen Years
  15. Pre High School Years
  16. A Turning Point
  17. College Prep Program
  18. Extra-Curricula Activities
  19. My Book Buying Bargain
  20. Exposure to the Outside World
  21. Of the Great Barrington Churches
  22. Of the A.M.E. Zion Activities
  23. Of Growing Aware of My Environment
  24. My Paternal Side Beckons
  25. Meeting My Paternal Grandfather
  26. The Paternal Side Of My Family
  27. Of Being Exposed to Black Culture
  28. Graduation Day
  29. My Mother's Passing
  30. The Selection Of Fisk
  31. Off to Nashville
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