Author

Books by W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. He was the first African American to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard and was a co-founder of the NAACP in 1909. He edited The Crisis magazine for two decades and wrote more than twenty books, including Black Reconstruction in America and Darkwater. Late in life he moved to Ghana and renounced his American citizenship. He died in Accra the day before the March on Washington in 1963.