W.E.B+Dubois

Full Name :William Edward Burghardt Du Bois When was he born: February 23, 1868 Where was he born?: Great Barrington, MA. Where did he go to college?: graduated from Fisk University, a black institution at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1888.He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895. His Job/Work :a noted scholar, editor, and African American activist.American sociologist What he Founded :Du Bois was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -- the largest and oldest civil rights organization in America) in 1909.He left teh NCAAP in 1934, yielding his influence as a race leader and charging that the organization was dedicated to the interests of the black bourgeoisie and ignored the problems of the masses.In 1940 he founded the magazine //Phylon//, Atlanta University's “Review of Race and Culture.” After leaving the NCAAP: he returned to Atlanta University, where he devoted the next 10 years to teaching and scholarship.He produced two major books during this period. //Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America//

What he was well known for: He made significant contributions to debates about race, politics, and history in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, primarily through his writing and impassioned speaking on race relations.He served as editor of //The Crisis//magazine from 1910-1934 and published several scholarly works on race and African American history.The following books: "The souls of Black Folk"(1903) "Black Reconstruction in America" "The Crisis". Du Bois was a leader of the first Pan-African Conference in London in 1900 and the architect of four Pan-African Congresses held between 1919 and 1927. What he Acheived before he died: By the time he died, in 1963, he had written 17 books, edited four journals and played a key role in reshaping black-white relations in America. When did he die?: August 27, 1963 Theories on Racism :"he gradually came to the conclusion that in a climate of virulent racism, expressed in such evils as lynching, peonage, disfranchisement, Jim Crow segregation laws, and race riots, social change could be accomplished only through agitation and protest" Disagreed with the most influential black leader of the period, __[|Booker T. Washington],__ who, preaching a philosophy of accommodation, urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and elevate themselves through hard work and economic gain, thus winning the respect of the whites. What movements he founded: in 1905, Du Bois took the lead in founding the Niagara Movement, which was dedicated chiefly to attacking the platform of Booker T. Washington. The small organization, which met annually until 1909, was seriously weakened by internal squabbles and Washington's opposition. The Niagara Movement let to the creation of NAACP. Du Bois nationalism: the most influential being his pioneering advocacy of Pan-Africanism, the belief that all people of African descent had common interests and should work together in the struggle for their freedom.He articulated a cultural nationalism.Du Bois's black nationalism is seen in his belief that blacks should develop a separate “group economy” of producers' and consumers' cooperatives as a weapon for fighting economic discrimination and black poverty. []