Nigger Heaven
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Nigger Heaven is a novel by Carl Van Vechten published in October 1926. The book is set during the Harlem Renaissance in the United States in the 1920s. The book and its title have been controversial
First edition of the text, with original dustwrapper, published 1926
W. E. B. Du Bois
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tole
Nigger Heaven
…It also split the Black literary community, as some including Langston Hughes and Nella Larsen appreciated it, while others like Countee Cullen and W. E. B. Du Bois regarded it as an "affront to the hospitality of black folks". The book fuelled a period of "Harlemania", during which the neighborhood became en vogue…
Du Bois in 1907
The title page of Du Bois's Harvard dissertation, Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the United States of America: 1638–1871
Du Bois in 1904
Founders of the Niagara Movement in 1905. Du Bois is in the middle row, with white hat.