W.E.B. Du Bois By: Alana Vieira

“Du Bois was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan- Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.”

First African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard

Was a teacher at Atlanta University

He was a radical democrat

“Du Bois believed that ideas not slogans, principles not personalities were essential to the eradication of the many forms of bigotry and inequality that had prevented what he called “the ideal of human brotherhood” in America”.

“To make a name in science, to make a name in art and thus to raise my race”

Found problems of race and justice in the United States

Du Bois wrote many articles in magazines called the Atlantic monthly, The Dial, Worlds Work

“By the turn of the century, he had become convinced that the distinctive artistic traditions, expressive culture, and communal values of African Americans- what he called the “soul” of the black folk in the Unites States- had to be recognized, respected, and conserved by white and black Americans alike”

The Niagara Movement "We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America”

Du Bois strongly opposed Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise speech

Du Bois co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

The NAACP's specified goal was to assure rights for all people

“The NAACP's principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice.”

He served as the editor of the NAACP monthly magazine, The Crisis.

In this book he said the phrase “the talented tenth”. This term explained the probability of 1 in 10 black men becoming leaders of their race.

In this book Du Bois talks about “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.”

“Life within the veil” & “Double-consciousness”

He wrote 21 books, edited 15 more, and published over 100 essays and articles.

He published “The Negro” a study that incorporated people of African descent worldwide.

He attempted to combat colonialism, while doing this Du Bois organized several Pan-African congresses in Europe and New York.

“The Depression of the 1930’s confirmed in Du Bois's mind the need for fundamental socioeconomic change in American according to Marxist principles”

In his first full-length autobiography, Dusk of Dawn: An Autobiography of a Concept of Race

He became a spokesperson and directed his efforts toward gaining equal treatment for African Americans.

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