![]() A lifelong opponent of racism and a committed pacifist, Du Bois advocated for socialism as a means of replacing racial capitalism in America and around the world. In addition to his activism against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and other forms of discrimination and segregation, Du Bois authored such influential works as The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Black Reconstruction in America (1935). In 1909, he cofounded the NAACP and served for years as the editor of its official magazine The Crisis. ![]() He worked as a professor at Atlanta University, a historically black institution, and was one of the leaders of the Niagara Movement, which advocated for equal rights and opposed Booker T. He studied at the University of Berlin and at Harvard, where he became the first African American scholar to earn a doctorate. Born in Massachusetts, he was raised in Great Barrington, an integrated community. Du Bois (1868-1963) was an African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and socialist. ![]()
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