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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1909
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When W. E. B. Du Bois was photographed behind his desk at Atlanta University in 1909, he was forty-one years old and had spent twelve very productive there. Among his publications from that era were the following: The Conservations of Races (1897); Some Efforts of American Negroes for their own Social Betterment (1898); The Negro Landholder of Georgia (1901); The Negro Artisan (1902); The Negro Church (1903); The Negro American Family (1908); and John Brown (1909). Also during his years in Atlanta, Du Bois confronted the grim realities of segregation, discrimination, and lynching in the American South. And he suffered the unspeakable loss of his first-born son.
Photo University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Special Collections and Archives, W. E. B. Du Bois Library
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