American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
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He named the problem before most Americans would admit it existed: the color line, the chasm separating black life from white in a country that called itself free. Du Bois demanded full citizenship, not compromise, and built the intellectual architecture for the civil rights struggle that followed.
Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on February 23, 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois became the first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard. He rose as a leader of the Niagara Movement, rejecting the Atlanta Compromise and insisting that an educated "talented tenth" could lead the race toward full civil rights and political power. He co-founded the NAACP in 1909 and edited The Crisis, publishing essays that protested lynching, Jim Crow, and the doctrine of separate but equal. His 1903 collection The Souls of Black Folk became a cornerstone of African-American literature; h…
Sourced, dated quotes from W. E. B. Du Bois
There has been no tragedy in modern times equal in its awful effects to the fight on the Jew in Germany.
It is ridiculous to seek to excuse Robert Lee as the most formidable agency this nation ever raised to make 4 million human beings goods instead of men.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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