David Levering Lewis (10/25/1993)

This edition of the Best of Studs Terkel travels back to the year 1993, and the interesting conversation Studs Terkel shared with the professor, cultural historian, and scholar of race relations, David Levering Lewis (1936–). Lewis is a recipient of the 2009 National Humanities Medal, and the author of eleven highly acclaimed books. He is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes, one for each volume of his definitive biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. In this archive rebroadcast, Studs and Mr. Lewis discuss the life and legacy W. E. B. Du Bois. Born in 1868, Du Bois  is considered to be the premier architect of the civil rights movement in the United States.