W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography

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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1909
		In 1910, W. E. B. Du Bois left his position on the faculty of Atlanta University to found The Crisis, the monthly magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and to serve as its editor until 1934. His editorials for The Crisis reflect the evolution of his political thought, and they chronicle an increasing concern with international economics and politics, particularly as they related to people of African descent. Thus, in 1919 he helped organize the Pan-African Congress in Paris. In the circa 1920s, when this photograph was taken and when he visited Africa, his chief question was whether "Negroes are to lead in the rise of Africa or whether they must always and everywhere follow the guidance of white folk."
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