W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, 1868-1963

In 1895, Harvard accepted his doctoral thesis on the slave trade and granted him the Ph. D. He taught for more than a dozen years at Atlanta University, chided Booker T. Washington for being too conservative and founded the Crisis magazine, which he edited from 1910 to 1934.

DuBois also organized college students and others into the Niagara Movement and he helped found the NAACP.

He penned novels, essays and sociological studies during the first 60 years of the 20th century. In "The Souls of Black Folk", he reported about "this sense of always looking at one???s self through the eyes of others. . .one feels his twoness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings."

In 1962, he renounced his American citizenship and moved to Ghana and died a year later.

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1919 May 31.

CREATOR: Cornelius M. Battey, 1918.

Housed in the Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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