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DuBois entered the Boylston prize-speaking contest in 1890 "because I needed the money" and came away with second prize. His friend Clement Morgan, also black, won first prize, and DuBois helped organize a small revolt in his class to elect Morgan Class Day speaker, breaking an unwritten rule which...
While DuBois had an instinctive reaction against the lily-white composition of Harvard, the distinguished academic community seems to have appealed to him. In his autobiography, Dusk of Dawn, he recalled with fondness discussions of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason with George Santayana, and invitations to the house of...
DuBois received his B.A. in 1890, his M.A. in 1891, and his Ph.D. in 1895, submitting a thesis entitled "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870." It was published a year later as the first volume in Harvard Historical Studies. After travelling...
DuBois, on the other hand, felt that nothing could be achieved without a struggle for civil rights, and to this end he favored the cultivation of a small faction, a "Talented Tenth" as he called it, which would lead the masses of black people in their fight for equality. DuBois...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a more successful venture, but DuBois's own relationship with the organization was tempestuous. He served as the editor of Crisis, NAACP's official publication until 1933, when he found that his program for "Negro self-sufficiency" and limited segregation...