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W. E. B. Du Bois, circa 1950s
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The 1950s were trying years for Du Bois as he came under intense scrutiny by the United States government for his involvement in the international peace movements and his open expressions of sympathy with the United Soviet Socialist Republic. Suspicious that Du Bois was a Communist, the U. S. Department of State refused to issue him a passport in 1952 and prevented his traveling abroad until 1958. Once his passport was restored, he and his wife, Shirley Graham Du Bois, traveled extensively in Europe, China, the USSR, and the Eastern bloc.
Photo University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Special Collections and Archives, W. E. B. Du Bois Library
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