W. E. B. DuBois #1064

Caption from poster__       " The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro,   and the south was not wholly wrong; for education for education   among all kinds of men always has had, and always will had,    an element of danger and revolution of discontent."       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. Dubois was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University  in 1896. Between 1897 and 1914 Dubois conducted numerous studies of black society in America, publishing 16 research papers. He began his investigations believing that social science could provide answers to race probl