W. E. B. DuBois #1359

Caption from poster__         " But what of black women?...I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."   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 problems. Gradually he concluded that in a climate of virulent  racism, social change could only be accomplished by agitation