W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B.
Du Bois (1868–1963) was an American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist—the first Black American to earn a doctorate from Harvard.
He co-founded the NAACP and edited its magazine *The Crisis* for decades.
His concept of "double consciousness"—the tension of being both Black and American—remains central to discussions of race.
Du Bois advocated for full political equality, clashing with Booker T.
Washington's accommodationist approach.
His works include *The Souls of Black Folk* and *Black Reconstruction in America*.
- double consciousnessAwareness of conflicting identities
- co-founderJoint venture originator
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- Pan-AfricanismContinental and diaspora solidarity ideology
- socialismCommunal economic control
Langston Hughes · sociology · anti-imperialism · color line · autobiography · Harlem Renaissance · civil rights · civil rights movement · Marxism · Zora Neale Hurston · cultural criticism · Harvard University · race theory · Jim Crow · Booker · labor rights · abolitionist · Reconstruction
- Black HistoryMartin Luther King Jr., MLK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
- activistsactivist, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activists, protester, campaigner
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- sociologysocial structure, social class, social institutions, social norms, social mobility
- Anti-ColonialistsHo Chi Minh, Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mandela
- Authors DCharles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Philip K. Dick, Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. Du BoisMilton Friedman
Ayn Rand · laissez-faire economics · American exceptionalism · rugged individualism · anti-communism