Introduction
William Edward Burghardt DuBois, to his admirers, was by spirited devotion and scholarly dedication, an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom.
A harbinger of Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism, he died in self-imposed exile in his home away from home with his ancestors of a glorious past—Africa.
Labeled as a "radical," he was ignored by those who hoped that his massive contributions would be buried along side of him. But, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, "history cannot ignore W.E.B. DuBois because history has to reflect truth and Dr. DuBois was a tireless explorer and a gifted discoverer of social truths. His singular greatness lay in his quest for truth about his own people. There were very few scholars who concerned themselves with honest study of the black man and he sought to fill this immense void. The degree to which he succeeded disclosed the great dimensions of the man."
W.E.B. Dubois
Sociologist, Author & Civil Rights Leader 1868 -1963
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. —WEB Dubois, 1897
The Souls of Black Folk - Author: W.E.B. Dubois
Penned by Dubois in 1903, "The Souls of Black Folk" remains his most studied and popular work. The book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues.