W.E.B Du BOIS, (1868 -1963) Civil rights leader, scholar, co-founder of the NAACP, and the chief organizer of the First Pan-African Congress of 1919.
Du Bois wrote and published more than 4,000 articles, essays, and books throughout his 95-year lifetime. He was one of the most prominent intellectual leaders and political activists on behalf of African Americans of the twentieth century.
Narration:
Civil rights activist, sociologist, and author. His name – W.E.B. Du Bois.
Born in Great Barrington Massachusetts in 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois grew up a free man.
Eager for education, he earned a degree from Fisk University in 1888. He later earned a cum laude bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1890, and he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895.
A Pan-Africanist, Du Bois believed in the unification of African Americans with the global African community.
He focused on social science and wrote ThePhiladelphia Negro: A Social Study in 1899 and Souls of Black Folk in 1903.
Du Bois died on the eve of the historic 1963 March on Washington, but his life and contributions were recognized.
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Great AmericanCredits: Editor: Stacy T. Holmes, ACE, Narrator: Steve Schy, Music: PartnersinRhyme.com, Digital Collection: Library of Congress, Copyright: CBN Communications
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