His cause included people of color everywhere, particularly Africans and Asians in colonies. He referred to this group as the Talented Tenth, a concept under the umbrella of racial uplift, and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.ĭu Bois primarily targeted racism in his polemic, which protested strongly against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment.
Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.ĭu Bois rose to national prominence as a leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. After completing graduate work at the Friedrich Wilhelm University (in Berlin, Germany) and Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( / dj uː ˈ b ɔɪ s/ dew- BOYSS Febru– August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
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