The paperback edition of Black Reconstruction—though designed to be released at the time of the March on Washington—also corresponded to Du Bois’s death in 1963.

Source: https://monthlyreview.org/2023/04/01/john-j-simon-socialist-editor-writer-and-broadcaster/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=john-j-simon-socialist-editor-writer-and-broadcaster

Williams worked on it for 12 years but he started thinking about it when he discovered Du Bois’s unpublished manuscript 23 years ago.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/06/chad-l-williams-web-du-bois-the-wounded-world-biography