W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt
About
Born: February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States
Civil rights-activist
sociologist
Objective: African American studies teacher at Harvard University
Education
- Received a bachelor's degree from Fisk University in 1888
- Earned a second one from Harvard University in 1890
- Continued on to graduate school and doctoral studies in Germany at the University of Berlin
Past job experience
Taught briefly at Wilberforce University in Ohio
Before accepting an offer to teach at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and conduct sociological research on a local Black neighborhood
In 1897, was named professor of history and economics at Atlanta University in Georgia. I remained there for twelve years
In 1909 became director of research for NAACP
Acomplishments
- Co founder of NAACP
- became involved in a wide variety of activities and continued to speak out forcefully on behalf of Pan-Africanism.
- My vigor had surprised the NAACP leadership which had expected me, the seventy-six-year-old scholar to serve as little more than a figurehead.
References
- Joel Spingarn
- Charles Young
- John Hope