Margins
W.E.B. Du Bois profile picture
W.E.B. Du Bois
Author · 40 books

In 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced 'doo-boyz') was born in Massachusetts. He attended Fisk College in Nashville, then earned his BA in 1890 and his MS in 1891 from Harvard. Du Bois studied at the University of Berlin, then earned his doctorate in history from Harvard in 1894. He taught economics and history at Atlanta University from 1897-1910. The Souls of Black Folk (1903) made his name, in which he urged black Americans to stand up for their educational and economic rights. Du Bois was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and edited the NAACP's official journal, "Crisis," from 1910 to 1934. Du Bois turned "Crisis" into the foremost black literary journal. The black nationalist expanded his interests to global concerns, and is called the "father of Pan-Africanism" for organizing international black congresses. Although he used some religious metaphor and expressions in some of his books and writings, Du Bois called himself a freethinker. In "On Christianity," a posthumously published essay, Du Bois critiqued the black church: "The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer." Du Bois became a member of the Communist Party and officially repudiated his U.S. citizenship at the end of his life, dying in his adopted country of Ghana. D. 1963. More: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t... http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stori... http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0his... http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/dub...

Series

Books

Black Lives 1900 book cover

Black Lives 1900

W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

2019

The Philadelphia Negro book cover

The Philadelphia Negro

A Social Study

1899

W.E.B. Du Bois book cover

W.E.B. Du Bois

Black Reconstruction

2021

Why I Won’t Vote

2025

Dark Matter book cover

Dark Matter

A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

2000

Mansart Builds a School

1976

Of the Dawn of Freedom book cover

Of the Dawn of Freedom

2009

The Negro Church book cover

The Negro Church

1903

Dusk of Dawn book cover

Dusk of Dawn

An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept

1940

The Souls of Black Folk

with The Talented Tenth and The Souls of White Folks

1996

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois book cover

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois

Selections, 1877-1934

1973

The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois book cover

The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois

1968

Gift of Black Folk book cover

Gift of Black Folk

1924

Darkwater book cover

Darkwater

1920

Dark Princess book cover

Dark Princess

1974

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 book cover

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

1935

Prayers for Dark People book cover

Prayers for Dark People

1980

The Education of Black People book cover

The Education of Black People

Ten Critiques, 1906 - 1960

1973

The Ordeal of Mansart book cover

The Ordeal of Mansart

1976

John Brown book cover

John Brown

1909

W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk book cover

W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk

A Graphic Interpretation

2023

The Negro book cover

The Negro

1915

The Conservation of Races book cover

The Conservation of Races

1897

The Souls of Black Folk book cover

The Souls of Black Folk

1903

The Talented Tenth book cover

The Talented Tenth

2011

Black Sci-Fi Short Stories book cover

Black Sci-Fi Short Stories

2021

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks book cover

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks

1970

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 book cover

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870

1896

The Comet book cover

The Comet

1920

W.E.B. Du Bois book cover

W.E.B. Du Bois

A Reader

1970

The World and Africa book cover

The World and Africa

1947

Africa book cover

Africa

1977

In Battle for Peace book cover

In Battle for Peace

The Story of My 83rd Birthday

1952

The Quest of the Silver Fleece book cover

The Quest of the Silver Fleece

1911

Strivings of the Negro People book cover

Strivings of the Negro People

2010

Three Negro Classics book cover

Three Negro Classics

1910

W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black Community book cover

W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black Community

1978

The W.E.B. Dubois Collection book cover

The W.E.B. Dubois Collection

2019

Writings book cover

Writings

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles

1986

Color and Democracy

Colonies and Peace

1975

548 Market St PMB 65688, San Francisco California 94104-5401 USA
© 2025 Paratext Inc. All rights reserved