W.E.B Du Bois
By Makayla Dorsey
Biography
"The Cost Of Liberty Is Less Than The Price Of Repression." ~W.E.B Du Bois
Facts
2.) He wrote a book called "The Soul Of Black Folk". it holds an important place in social science as one of the early works in the field of sociology
3.) In 1915 Du Bois published the book "The Negro". it's about African American history,cultures, and slave trade.
4.) in 1935 he published the book "Black Reconstruction". It's an essay towards the part African Americans played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America.
5.) in 1920 he published the book "Dark Princess".The book is one of five historical novels and express the beauty of people of color around the world.
6.) In 1896 he published the book "The Suppression of African Slave Trade to the United States of America".
7.) Du Bois was a co-founder of the Niagara movement. it was an African American protest for equal rights in the early 1900's.
8.) He was an early proponent of the Pan
Africanism ( an idea of self government for oppressed African Americans around the world).
9.) His books, essays, poems, and plays etc... gave various political belief.
10.) He is one of the "founding figures" in American sociology.