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Biography: Life of WEB DuBois
Born 1868, Died 1963
WEB (William Edward Burghardt) Dubois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Intellectually gifted, W.E.B. Dubois received a B.A. from Fisk University in Nashville and B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. Dubois also studied for three years at the University of Berlin in Germany.
His early experience in Great Barrington and later in Nashville made him fully aware of the racial discrimination against blacks and set him on a lifelong course against injustice.
After spending two years teaching in Ohio, in 1896 WEB Dubois accepted a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. As a result of his extensive scientific research of blacks as a social system, Dubois is acknowledged as the father of Social Science.
In 1897 WEB Dubois accepted a teaching position at Atlanta University where he spent thirteen years studying Southern society and encouraging social reform. Ideological differences between the radical WEB Dubois and the conservative Booker T. Washington over how to promote the educational, social and political interests of blacks resulted in a personal battle between the two. In 1903 Dubois published his book The Souls of Black Folk, which contained a chapter on the philosophy of Washington. By 1905 WEB Dubois was drawn to socialist ideas and was sympathetic to Marxism for the rest of his life.
In 1906 Dubois founded the Niagara Movement, whose members in 1909 merged with white liberals to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). From 1910 to 1934 WEB Dubois edited the Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP. Over the years, Dubois organized and participated in several Pan-African Congresses to promote freedom for Africans everywhere.
By 1961 WEB Dubois had become completely disillusioned with the United States. He moved to Ghana where he joined the Communist Party. The following year he renounced his United States citizenship. WEB Dubois died on August 27, 1963 in Ghana.
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