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This theory has two facets: first, that Harvard is conservative in its internal policies, even racist and sexist, and second, that Harvard is conservative by nature because it is an entrenched institution in a conservative nation. From the days of John reed and W.E.B. DuBois '90, who said he was...
During the rest of his life, DuBois travelled extensively through the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952, the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959 and that same year was honored by Chou En-lai at a birthday dinner in...
Soon afterwards, DuBois accepted the invitation of President Kwane Nkrumah of Ghana to settle in his country. DuBois was working on an Encyclopedia Africana when he died on August 28, 1963. Simultaneously thousands were gathering for the march on Washington, the culmination of the struggle for civil rights which DuBois...
DuBois then took the chairmanship of the Peace Information Center in New York City in 1949, an organization that the Attorney General listed as "subversive." He was indicted by a federal grand jury for "failure to register as a foreign agent," but was acquitted on the strength of the efforts...
It was only in 1961, at the age of 93 that DuBois officially joined the American Communist Party. In a letter of application to Gus Hall, secretary of the Party, DuBois said that he had come to the conclusion that it was through the final victory of the proletariat that...