![]() ![]() From this bully pulpit, he battled for racial justice conducted intellectual inquiries (among other matters, on the talented-tenth theory) critiqued the views of rivals like Booker T. Du Bois left academe to become the NAACP's director of research and publicity as well as editor of its influential magazine, The Crisis. Meanwhile, he published pioneering sociological studies (The Philadelphia Negro, etc.), arranged symposiums, and helped found the Niagara Movement-an all- black group that in 1909 joined forces with liberal whites to form the NAACP. After graduating, he pursued one of the few careers open to educated blacks, that of teaching-at Atlanta University and other institutions. Born in western Massachusetts less than three years after the abolition of slavery, Du Bois managed to earn a doctorate in history from Harvard. ![]() In the first part of a projected two-volume biography, Rutgers history professor Lewis (The Race to Fashoda, 1988, etc.) offers a detailed chronicle that puts the eventful origins of a towering figure clearly in the perspective of his troubled times. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) has finally found a Boswell worthy of his achievements as an African-American reformer who fought for human rights in the US and the wider world. ![]()
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