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When: Feb 23, 1868
What: W.E.B. Du Bois was born.
Why significant: Du Bois was a brilliant scholar and an influential proponent of civil rights.
After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where Du Bois was the first African American to earn a doctorate, Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University.
He was the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks.
DuBois came to national attention with the publication of <The Souls of Black Folks> (1903). The book explored the thesis that the “central problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.”
Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite.
Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemics, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment.
In 1909, Du Bois co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism, and he was generally sympathetic to socialist causes throughout his life. He joined the Communist Party in 1961 and moved to Ghana, where he became a citizen in 1963, the year of his death.
Tags: W.E.B. Du Bois, racism, civil rights, <The Souls of Black Folks> (1903)