W.E.B Dubois W.E.B Dubois was a significant human being. He was born on February 23, 1868 to the late Alfred and Mary Dubois. In Dubois’ early childhood his parents divorced and he remained with his mother until she died in 1884. In his adolescent he lived in a town with five thousand whites and only fifty blacks. He first started seeing the racial discrimination in his hometown. Dubois was an excellent student. He was encouraged by his teachers to do well in school, which was rare considering he attend a white public school. From his hard work and dedication he was hired as a local correspondent for the New York Globe. His goal was to help blacks become politically recognized and wrote many articles doing just that. Soon after he graduated …show more content…
There he studied economics and social problems. At Harvard, he felt as if he went there but was out of place. Dubois felt as if he was not part of the Harvard community. “I was in Harvard but not of it.” Which was how he explained it. Then in 1890 he earned his B.A. and started working towards his masters then doctors degree. He received his doctorate in the spring of 1891. DuBois was accepted into the Study Abroad program. He studied at the University of Berlin in Germany. There he focused on the racial problems in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. He almost earned his degree in Germany but one semester before graduating he ran out of money and had to return to Harvard and finish his degree. By going back to Harvard and finishing his work, he became the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard. Upon graduating he got his first teaching job in Ohio at Wilberforce University where he taught English, French, and literature. As far as his pay goes, it was not that fantastic. For the year he taught there he only accumulated eight hundred dollars. He then resigned from Wilberforce …show more content…
The piece was called The Philadelphia Negro. From this project he became known as the father of social science. He was offered many positions at different Universities. Dubois accepted a position at Atlanta University in Georgia. For thirteen years he taught History and Economics. After teaching for thirteen years there he left and wrote The Souls of Black Folks. This was a movement to attempt to win social justice for African Americans. Throughout the book it discussed the frustrations that blacks had to encounter due to racism. Dubois then met Booker T. Washington, who had brought about the Atlanta Compromise. Dubois publicly opposed the compromise. He felt that it violated the 14th amendment of the constitution. From all of the animosity between the two, DuBois rallied together twenty-nine African American leaders in 1906 and started the Niagara Movement. Which later became known as the NAACP. The NAACP is said to be the Civil Rights movement most influential