Du Bois: Selected Essays

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (1868-1963) 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 in 1909.

Contents:

A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South

Of the Training of Black Men

The Talented Tenth

The Conservation of Races

The Economic Revolution in the South

Religion in the South

Strivings of the Negro People

The Black North: A Social Study