W. E. B. Dubois Biography
Dev Patel
Ms. Waxmonsky
APUSH II Pd. 3
November 11, 2015
Biography De Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, otherwise known as W.E.B. Du Bois, was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. W.E.B. Du Bois was born during the term of President Andrew Johnson. In his early life, he attended racially integrated elementary and high schools and went off to Fiske College in Tennessee at age 16 on a scholarship. Since he was born in the north, Du Bois never encountered racial segregation, but when he moved to Tennessee, he encountered Jim Crow laws for the first time. After Du Bois earned his bachelor’s degree at Fisk, in 1895, Du Bois became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in the subject of history from Harvard University.he completed his formal education at Harvard with a Ph.D. in history. Then Du Bois enrolled for a postdoctoral at …show more content…
Washington, who accepted racial segregation. In 1903, Du Bois published, “The Souls of Black Folks,” Du Bois argued that Washington’s strategy kept the black man down rather than free him. In 1905, Du Bois started the Niagara Movement, but was fail, so then he co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which was founded in 1909. Du Bois served as the editor of NAACP’s, “The Crisis,” which was used to attack racial segregation, discrimination, and the lynching of blacks. By World War I, Du Bois had become the leading black figure in the U.S. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Du Bois found himself in a bitter dispute with Walter White, the head of the NAACP, he questioned the NAACP’s goal of racially integrated society, which left to his resignation as editor of, “The Crisis,” in 1934. In 1961, Du Bois had joined the U.S. Communist Party, after he was disappointed with the U.S. he left the country and became a citizen of Ghana, Africa. While working on an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora, W.E.B. Du Bois died on August
Ms. Waxmonsky
APUSH II Pd. 3
November 11, 2015
Biography De Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, otherwise known as W.E.B. Du Bois, was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. W.E.B. Du Bois was born during the term of President Andrew Johnson. In his early life, he attended racially integrated elementary and high schools and went off to Fiske College in Tennessee at age 16 on a scholarship. Since he was born in the north, Du Bois never encountered racial segregation, but when he moved to Tennessee, he encountered Jim Crow laws for the first time. After Du Bois earned his bachelor’s degree at Fisk, in 1895, Du Bois became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in the subject of history from Harvard University.he completed his formal education at Harvard with a Ph.D. in history. Then Du Bois enrolled for a postdoctoral at …show more content…
Washington, who accepted racial segregation. In 1903, Du Bois published, “The Souls of Black Folks,” Du Bois argued that Washington’s strategy kept the black man down rather than free him. In 1905, Du Bois started the Niagara Movement, but was fail, so then he co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which was founded in 1909. Du Bois served as the editor of NAACP’s, “The Crisis,” which was used to attack racial segregation, discrimination, and the lynching of blacks. By World War I, Du Bois had become the leading black figure in the U.S. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Du Bois found himself in a bitter dispute with Walter White, the head of the NAACP, he questioned the NAACP’s goal of racially integrated society, which left to his resignation as editor of, “The Crisis,” in 1934. In 1961, Du Bois had joined the U.S. Communist Party, after he was disappointed with the U.S. he left the country and became a citizen of Ghana, Africa. While working on an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora, W.E.B. Du Bois died on August