author
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
1868–1963
A brilliant scholar and fearless public thinker, he helped shape modern conversations about race, democracy, and Black freedom. His work blends history, sociology, and moral urgency in a way that still feels strikingly alive.
11 Audiobooks
The Conservation of Races The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The Conservation of Races
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
John Brown
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The Negro
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, Booker T. Washington
The social evolution of the Black South
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
About the author
Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868, W. E. B. Du Bois became one of the most influential American intellectuals of the twentieth century. He studied at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, and he went on to build a career that crossed scholarship, journalism, and activism.
Du Bois is widely known for The Souls of Black Folk, but his writing reached far beyond a single book. He was a pioneering sociologist and historian, a co-founder of the NAACP, and for many years the editor of The Crisis, where he used essays and commentary to challenge racism, segregation, and political injustice.
Across his life, he also became a major voice in Pan-African thought, linking the struggle for civil rights in the United States with anticolonial movements around the world. He died in Ghana in 1963, leaving behind books and essays that remain essential reading for anyone interested in American history, Black political thought, and the power of ideas to press for change.