W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most important African American academics of the twentieth century. In addition to his groundbreaking work as a sociologist, he was a founder of the NAACP. Du Bois worked to fight Jim Crow, discrimination, and imperialism in Africa.

Image: “W.E. Burghardt Du Bois” by Winold Reiss (1925). From the New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division