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W.E.B Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt
The founder of black studies in American academic life
Vital role in NAACP( national association advancement of color people
Wrote poetry fiction literary forms
Grew up in great Barrington Massachusetts
I attended predominately white schools and churches graduated with honors
His autobiography dusk of dawn thought of no discrimination part of it’s white fellows
Won a scholarship to Harvard university, Received a doctorate in history
His dissertation was “the suppression of the African slave trade so the United States .” 1st volume in Harvard historical studies
Married Nina Gomar, & Produced Philadelphia Negro the 1st sociological text on an African American community published in the US
Souls of Black folk is a important respect of its collective experience of life within the veil
Wrote a “litany of Atlanta” in the wake of a brutal outbreak of violence against blacks in Atlanta
Crisis” was the most widely read African American magazine
Crisis” published several of the best new writers like Langston Hughes and countee Cullen
1st full length autobiography was dusk of Don about human and social injustice
He was forced retirement from Atlanta University and fired from the in NAACP as the director of special research.
You renounced his American citizenship and became a citizen of Ghana when he died he was planning the encyclopedia Africana
