W.E.B. DuBois

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February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, The United States

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August 27, 1963

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95.

David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism — scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."

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Average rating: 4.10 · 5,893 ratings · 358 reviews · 74 distinct works

	The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois, Donald B. Gibson (Introduction), Monica M. Elbert (Notes) 4.08 avg rating — 5,163 ratings — published 1903 — 145 editions	My rating:
	Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. DuBois, David Levering Lewis (Introduction) 4.57 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1935 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles by W.E.B. DuBois, Nathan Irvin Huggins (Editor), Nathan I. Huggins (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. DuBois, Dover Thrift Editions 4.29 avg rating — 73 ratings — 39 editions	My rating:
	John Brown by W.E.B. DuBois, David R. Roediger (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1974 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel 3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1969 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Autobiography of W.E. Burghardt Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century by W.E.B. DuBois, Herbert Aptheker (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by W.E.B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington 4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	World and Africa: Inquiry Into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History 4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1947 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Souls of Black Folk 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.”
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“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
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“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
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