W.E.B. Du Bois Papers, 1803-1984. 328 boxes (168.75 linear feet).
Scholar, writer, editor of The Crisis and other journals, co-founder of the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, and the Pan African Congresses, international spokesperson for peace and for the rights of oppressed minorities, W.E.B. Du Bois was a son of Massachusetts who articulated the strivings of African Americans and developed a trenchant analysis of the problem of the color line in the twentieth century.
The Du Bois Papers contain almost 165 linear feet of the personal and professional papers of a remarkable social activist and intellectual. Touching on all aspects of his long life from his childhood during Reconstruction through the end of his life in 1963, the collection reflects the extraordinary breadth of his social and academic commitments from research in sociology to poetry and plays, from organizing for social change to organizing for Black consciousness.
- African Americans--Civil rights
- African Americans--History--1877-1964
- Crisis (New York, N.Y.)
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Views on democracy
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- United States--Race relations
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963