David Levering Lewis
Humanities Forum
November 13 | 7:00 p.m.
“W.E.B. Du Bois Fifty Years after the March on Washington,” Dr. David Levering Lewis, Professor of History, New York University
University Center Ballroom
This Humanities Forum is the Annual Du Bois Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies.
The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis’s field is comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights.
He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes.
