W E B DU BOIS 1868 1963 EDUCATOR WRITER AND EDITOR DU BOIS W E B 1868 1963 EDUCATION CIVIL RIGHTS/EQUALITY REFORM MOVEMENTS COMMUNICATIONS AFRICAN AMERICANS AMERICAN CULTURE W E B DU BOIS WAS BORN TO DUTCH AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENTS IN GREAT BARRINGTON MASSACHUSETTS HE STUDIED AT FISK HARVARD AND BERLIN UNIVERSITIES EARNING HIS PH.D AT HARVARD IN 1895 HE TAUGHT ECONOMICS AND HISTORY AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY FROM 1897 UNTIL 1910 DU BOIS HELPED FOUND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE NAACP IN 1909 HE SUPPORTED PAN AFRICANISM AND INDEPENDENCE FOR AFRICAN COLONIES FROM 1910 UNTIL 1934 DU BOIS EDITED THE NAACP'S MAGAZINE THE CRISIS IN 1932 HE RETURNED TO ATLANTA UNIVERSITY WHERE HE TAUGHT SOCIOLOGY UNTIL 1944 DU BOIS CO CHAIRED THE 1945 PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE IN 1961 HE JOINED THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND MOVED TO GHANA WHERE HE DIED DU BOIS WAS THE AUTHOR OF SEVERAL BOOKS INCLUDING THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK 1903 JOHN BROWN 1909 THE NEGRO 1915 AND COLOR AND DEMOCRACY 1945
