Definition for Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt
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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (1868 to 1963): Editor, historian, sociologist, political activist, author. A Massachusetts native, Du Bois was shocked and profoundly affected by the racial segregation in the South, which he experienced firsthand while attending Fisk University from 1885-88. After receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895, he studied black life in the Philadelphia ghetto and wrote The Philadelphia Negro (1899). Du Bois served as a professor of economics, history, and economics at Atlanta University from 1898-1910, during which time he published his collection of essays The Soul of Black Folk (1903), which called for the African-American middle class to mobilize against bigoted racial policies.
