W.E.B._Dubois

W.E.B. Dubois Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. —WEB Dubois, 1897 W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Dubois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was one of the most influential black leaders of the first half of the 20th Century. Dubois shared in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, in 1909. He served as its director of research and editor of its magazine, "Crisis," until 1934. Born in 1868 during the painful period of Reconstruction, Du Bois was graduated from Fisk University in 1888 and went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895 before entering the worlds of academe and activism. Using Atlanta University as his base from 1897-1910, he opposed Booker T. Washington's educational views black, dubois, du, bois, web, social, race, crisis, university, published, one, moved, ghana, first, during, century, american, advancement, 1868, year, views, until, united, throughout, studies, states, sociology, sociologist, should, rights, research, reconstruction, publishing, protest, political