Author · United States · 1868–1963
W. E. B. Du Bois
Social science and lyric fire naming the color line, double consciousness, and democracy.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Souls and data for 2026
W E B Du Bois unites data and music. He names structures and feelings together and invites the reader into public work. Read him to understand democracy and identity with tools that still travel across classrooms and streets.
