February 23, 1868: W.E.B. Du Bois Born
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Suggested Readings
Derrick P. Alridge, The Educational Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History (New York: Teachers College Press, 2008).
David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (New York: Henry Holt, 1993).
Manning Marable, W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat (Boston: Twayne, 1986).
“W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-905&sug=y
Georgia Historical Society Encounter and Exchange: http://georgiahistory.com/containers/85
W.E.B. Du Bois Central: http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/dubois/
Georgia Writer’s Hall of Fame: http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/dubois.html
PBS The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_dubois.html
Library of Congress Web Guide: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/dubois/
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Image Credits
Atlanta University Georgia Historical Society Postcard Collection, 1361PC 02 Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
Anti-lynching parade in NYC down 5th Ave 1917, mums312-0415 Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Atlanta University Brochure ca 1909 01, mums312-b001-i197-001 Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Atlanta University Brochure ca 1909 02, mums312-b001-i197-002 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Atlanta University Brochure ca 1909 03, mums312-b001-i197-003 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
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Atlanta University Brochure ca 1909 04, mums312-b001-i197-004 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Booker T. Washington gives Atlanta Compromise speech, 1895 Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama
“Four Very Peculiar Cases” The Atlanta Constitution, April 26, 1899 Real Times Inc. ProQuest Archiver.
Delegates from Junior NAACP Cleveland with W E B Du Bois 1929, mums312-0444 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
“Description of Sam Holt” The Atlanta Constitution, April 23, 1899 Real Times Inc. ProQuest Archiver.
Family portrait of W.E.B Du Bois his wife Nina and their baby son Burghardt 1898, mums312- 0389 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
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Mary Sylvina Du Bois with infant W.E.B Du Bois ca 1868-1869, mums312-0378 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Nine African American women full length portrait seated on steps of a building at Atlanta University Georgia Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-08757
“Posse Went out to Look at Him” The Atlanta Constitution, April 22, 1899 Real Times Inc. ProQuest Archiver.
“Races Must Have Understanding” The Atlanta Constitution, September 25, 1906 Real Times Inc. ProQuest Archiver.
“Religious Press on the Race Riot” The Atlanta Constitution October 7, 1906 Real Times Inc. ProQuest Archiver.
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“Sam Holt Burned at the Stake” Courtesy of The Newnan Times Herald Presented Online by the Digital Library of Georgia
Sam Holt poem Courtesy of The Newnan Times Herald Presented Online by the Digital Library of Georgia
“Sam Hose Burned At The Stake,” Union Recorder, April 25, 1899 p6 Presented Online by the Digital Library of Georgia
Undated NAACP Exhibit, mums312-0012 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
W.E.B Du Bois 1872, mums312-0380 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
W.E.B Du Bois and Mao Tse tung outdoors in Lake Country China April 1959, mums312-0741 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
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W.E.B Du Bois at a party in honor of his 90th birthday Chicago 1958, mums312-0534 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
W.E.B Du Bois Boston 1907, mums312-0408 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
W.E.B Du Bois Harvard graduation 1890, mums312-0381 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
W.E.B Du Bois in his office holding the first issue of The Crisis 1948, mums312-0463 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
W.E.B Du Bois lying in hammock Camp Litchfield Maine 1940, mums312-0452 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
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W.E.B Du Bois receiving the Springarn Metal 1920, mums312-0423 Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Black Reconstruction by W.E.B DuBois Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
“The Crisis” by W.E.B DuBois Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
“Souls of Black Folk” manuscript by W.E.B DuBois Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
W.E.B DuBois Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection LC-USZ62- 42528
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