A brilliant young black American medical student runs into a color barrier that keeps him from graduating. He goes into self-exile to Europe where he discovers a world-wide group of colored peoples seeking to overthrow white-dominated governments. He falls in love with an Indian princess, who is one of the leaders of the organization. After returning to America and spending several troubled years dealing with Chicago politics and a failed marriage of convenience, he marries the princess and works with the organization to develop long range plans to overcome white dominance.This book was DuBois' personal favorite of his works, combining themes of romance, international racial solidarity, and the corruptness of both the black and white political machines in Chicago.Perfect for readers who appreciate groundbreaking literature that tackles racial justice and international solidarity, this prescient novel by civil rights icon W.E.B. Du Bois offers a powerful vision of love transcending cultural boundaries. A stunning blend of romance, political intrigue, and social commentary that remains startlingly relevant nearly a century after its publication.The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)