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W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
1868–1963
A pioneering scholar and activist, he helped shape modern conversations about race, democracy, and justice. His books and essays combined rigorous research with moral urgency, making him one of the most influential Black intellectuals of the 20th century.
11 Audiobooks
The Conservation of Races The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2
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 Conservation of Races
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
The Negro
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
John Brown
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
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
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, W. E. B. Du Bois became the first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard. He built a remarkable career as a sociologist, historian, writer, editor, and public thinker, always insisting that Black life in America be studied honestly and represented fully.
Du Bois was a co-founder of the NAACP and, as editor of The Crisis, used journalism to confront racism and argue for civil rights. His best-known works include The Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction in America, books that challenged accepted ideas and opened new ways of understanding American history.
His life and work also reached far beyond the United States through Pan-African activism and international politics. By the time of his death in Accra, Ghana, in 1963, Du Bois had left a legacy that still shapes scholarship, politics, and literature.