Scholars

The nation’s most influential African American intellectual, Du Bois (1868-1963) wrote on every aspect of black life and culture.  He helped found the NAACP and vied with Booker T. Washington as the leading spokesman of the race.  Among his more than twenty books, he is best remembered for his Souls of Black Folk (1903), a book that continues to shape our understanding of the African American experience.  He was the founding editor of the NAACP’s magazine Crisis and later founded Phylon while teaching at Atlanta University. He is also known as the father of Pan-Africanism and devoted his later years to opposing colonialism and imperialism.