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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt(W. E. B. Du Bois)
US black civil rights leader, educator, and sociologist
1st black to receive Ph.D. from Harvard University 1895 (in history)
wrote "The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870" 1896, "The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study" 1899, "The Souls of Black Folk" 1903, "Black Reconstruction" 1935, "Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept" 1940, "The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois" 1968
advocated direct civil rights activism, criticizing vocationally-oriented accommodation policy of Booker T. Washington
advocated uplifting of blacks through efforts of educated black elite (the Talented Tenth)
secretary of Pan-African Conference in London 1900
main founder of Niagara Movement 1905
general secretary of Niagara Movement 1905-1909
main founder of NAACP 1909
editor of NAACP journal "The Crisis" 1910-1932
main organizer of First Pan-African Conference in Paris 1919
chairman of sociology department at Atlanta University 1933-1944
resigned from NAACP 1934, criticizing NAACP for bourgeois orientation at expense of black proletariat
founded journal "Phylon" 1940
1st editor of "Phylon" 1940-1944
1st black admitted to National Institute of Arts and Letters 1943
became disillusioned with US and drifted leftward politically
joined Communist Party 1961
immigrated to Ghana 1961 (naturalized Ghanaian citizen 1963
renounced US citizenship)
Spingarn Medal 1920
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