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Title
W.E.B. Du Bois, 1940s (?)
Alternative Title
W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar and civil rights activist
Date Created and/or Issued
[1940s (?)]
1940/1950
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
Portrait of William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois seated in his office in front of a bookcase.
W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. (Wikipedia)
Photo caption: William E. B. Du Bois (b. Great Barrington, Massachusetts, February 23, 1868; D. August 27, 1963) founder of the Niagara Movement (forerunner of the NAACP) one of founders of National Association for Advancement of Colored People. Sociologist, scholar, author and protagonist of Booker T. Washington with celebrated theory of "talented tenth". Founder and Editor of Crisis Magazine and Phylon.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b08_f11_002a.tif
ark:/21198/z1v42c7g
Subject
African American authors
African American civil rights workers
African American sociologists
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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