![]() ![]() In the larger work, The Souls of Black Folk, published in 1903, from which this excerpt is drawn, Du Bois describes the historical conditions for African Americans in the post-Civil War South during Reconstruction and to his present day. Du Bois was also interested in political economy, and would have earned a PhD from Friedrich-Wilhelm III Universität after studying there for two years under leading faculty in the German Historical School of economics if his fellowship had not expired, requiring him to leave Germany. ![]() Ironically, Du Bois died the morning of the day that Martin Luther King Jr. He was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University in 1895, and one of the founders of the NAACP in 1909. ![]() William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was a many-talented individual-an activist, sociologist, historian, educator, and poet, to name a few. ![]()
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