W. E. B. Du Bois
Full name: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Also known as: W. E. B. Du Bois, William E.B. Du Bois
Born: February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, MA
Died: August 27, 1963 in Accra, Ghana
Occupation: sociologist, historian, author, writer, editor
Notable works: The Souls of Black Folk (1903); "The Talented Tenth", second chapter of The Negro Problem (1903); The Crisis [author and editor] (1910-1933); Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (1920); Dark Princess: A Romance (1928); Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
— The Damnation of Women, ca. 1920
Associations: Communist Party, American Labor Party, World Peace Appeal, Progressive Party, Voice of Freedom Committee
Honors and awards: awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP (1920), inducted into the Fisk University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and also received an honorary degree (1958), awarded International Lenin Peace Prize (1959), appointed Honorary Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2012)