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W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1963
In 1903 W.E.B. Du Bois famously declared that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." Having received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895, Du Bois applied his extraordinary intellectual energies to studying the question of race in America. The author of more than twenty books, he was also an activist and helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910. Du Bois came to oppose the policy of racial accommodation favored by Booker T. Washington, insisting that African Americans actively promote the quest for full civil and political rights.
James E. Purdy, 1907 |