Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor                          

Selected Works:

Du Bois wrote and published more than 4,000 articles, essays, and books over the course of his 95-year life.

Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 - Free Press, 1995
New York, Harvard Historical Studies - 1896.
The Study of the Negro Problems - 1898
The Philadelphia Negro - 1899
The Negro in Business - 1899
The Evolution of Negro Leadership - 1901.
The Souls of Black Folk - 1903, reissued in 1999
The Talented Tenth, second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans - September 1903.
Voice of the Negro II - September 1905
John Brown: A Biography - 1909
Efforts for Social Betterment among Negro Americans - 1909
Atlanta University's Studies of the Negro Problem - 1897–1910
The Quest of the Silver Fleece - 1911
The Negro - 1915
Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil - 1920
The Gift of Black Folk - 1924
Dark Princess: A Romance - 1928
Africa, Its Geography, People and Products - 1930
Africa: Its Place in Modern History - 1930
Black Reconstruction: An Essay toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 - 1935
What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas - 1936
Black Folk, Then and Now - 1939
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept - 1940
Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace - 1945
The Encyclopedia of the Negro - 1946
The World and Africa - 1946
Peace Is Dangerous - 1951
I Take My Stand for Peace - 1951
In Battle for Peace - 1952
The Black Flame: A Trilogy
The Ordeal of Mansart - 1957
Mansart Builds a School - 1959
Africa in Battle Against Colonialism, Racialism, Imperialism - 1960
Worlds of Color - 1961
An ABC of Color: Selections from Over a Half Century of the Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois - 1963
The World and Africa, an Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History - 1965
The Autobiography of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois - International publishers, 1968.                          

Mother Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois
Father Alfred Du Bois
First wife Nina Gomer Du Bois, two children, Burghardt, who died as a baby and Yolande. Nina died 1950.
Second wife  Shirley Graham Du Bois, born Lola Shirley Graham.                          

First African-American to earn a doctorate at Harvard
Professor of History and Economics at Atlanta University
Head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - NAACP - 1910
Founder and editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis


1920 - Spingarn Medal                          

Prominent in the early movement for racial equality and helped create the NAACP, 1909.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois campaigned for increased political representation for blacks in order to guarantee civil rights, and the formation of a Black elite who would work for the progress of the African-American race.