W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the major figures in the struggle for human rights both in the United States and worldwide. A founder of both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Pan-African movement, he was the...

"Every intellectual," writes Ignazio Silone, "is a revolutionary," and though this may not be generally true, in the case of W. E. B. Du Bois, the observation is both accurate and fitting. The internationally known scholar and writer, born in Great...

"Every intellectual," writes Ignazio Silone, "is a revolutionary," and though this may not be generally true, in the case of W.E.B. Du Bois , the observation is both accurate and fitting. The internationally known scholar and writer, born in Great...

"[T]he problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk, arguably the best, if not most famous, of all the works of this remarkable scholar, intellectual, journalist, activist,...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois lived a life so full of conflictive action and reaction, so marked by radical gesture, so dramatically out of tune with the main thrusts of American life in the first half of the twentieth century that it is difficult...

W. E. B. Du Bois, scholar, intellectual, historian, educator, author, and civil-rights activist, was also an accomplished journalist who made expert use of the press to advance his philosophy concerning race relations in the world as well as the United...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was a major African American scholar, an early leader in the 20th-century African American protest movement, and an advocate of pan-Africanism. On Feb. 23, 1868, W. E. B. Du Bois was born in Great...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963), African American scholar, protest leader, and an advocate of pan-Africanism, was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he grew up. During his youth he did some newspaper...