W.E.B. Du Bois
Sociologist, writer and civil rights activist
W.E.B. Du Bois was an American sociologist and civil rights activist who wrote The Souls of Black Folk.
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Born 1868 in Great Barrington, United States Died 1963
Influenced by Aristotle, Karl Marx, Marcus Aurelius, William James
About W.E.B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868. He studied at Fisk College and did graduate work at Harvard, where he became the first Black American to gain a doctorate. He later taught at Atlanta University. Late in life he settled in Ghana, and he died in Accra in 1963. The Souls of Black Folk, a collection of essays published in 1903, made his name. Du Bois helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and edited its journal, The Crisis, from 1910 to 1934. He also helped organize Pan-African Congress meetings, which campaigned for the independence of African colonies.