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He shared in the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and edited The Crisis, its magazine, from 1910 to 1934. Late in life he became identified with communist causes. Early career Du Bois graduated from Fisk University, a black institution at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1888. He received a Ph. D. from Harvard University in 1895. His doctoral dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870, was published in 1896.
Although Du Bois took an advanced degree in history, he was broadly trained in the social sciences; and, at a time when sociologists were theorizing about race relations, he was conducting empirical inquiries into the condition of blacks. For more than a decade he devoted himself to sociological investigations of blacks in America, producing 16 research monographs published between 1897 and 1914 at Atlanta (Georgia) University, where he was a professor, as well as The Philadelphia Negro; A Social Study (1899), he first case study of a black community in the United States. Although Du Bois had originally believed that social science could provide the knowledge to solve the race problem, 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. In this view, he clashed 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. In 1903, in his famous book The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois charged that Washington’s strategy, rather than freeing the black man from oppression, would serve only to perpetuate it. This attack crystallized the opposition to Booker T. Washington among many black intellectuals, polarizing the leaders of the black community into two wings—the “conservative” supporters of Washington and his “radical” critics.
Two years later, 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. But it was significant as an ideological forerunner and direct inspiration for the interracial NAACP, founded in 1909. Du Bois played a prominent part in the creation of the NAACP and became the association’s director of research and editor of its magazine, The Crisis.
In this role he wielded an unequaled influence among middle-class blacks and progressive whites as the propagandist for the black protest from 1910 until 1934. ( the Britannica Classic Negro literature. ) * Page: * «Prev * 1 * 2 * 3 * Next» Most Popular Searches Top Searches * Barack Obama * Zsa Zsa Gabor * John Gotti * Truman Capote * Julia Child * >> More Top Searches Video Highlights Video Highlights * Celebrity Ghost Stories FULL EPISODE * Patrick Swayze FULL EPISODE * I Survived… FULL EPISODES * Maria Callas FULL EPISODE * Kelsey Grammer FULL EPISODE >> More Video Highlights Featured Bios Aftermath Monroe, Presley, Angelou, Einstein and many more have their place in the hallowed halls of Bio. com’s Featured Bios. Watch video, look at pictures, take quizzes and more. On TV I Survived… Watch new episodes Sundays at 9/8c! Celebrity Ghost Stories Watch new episodes Saturdays at 9e/10p! Shop Biography Legends of the Silver Screen DVD Set Legends of the Silver Screen DVD Set The brightest stars from the Hollywood universe shine brilliantly in this sweeping collection of profiles.
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