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W.E.B. DuBois

Host Lisa Simeone talks with historian David Levering Lewis, author of W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight For Equality and the American Century, 1919 to 1963. This new book explains why 1919 was not just a pivotal year in the making of this country but also important in the life of DuBois.

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