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Medgar W. Evers was murdered at the door of his home on June 12. The 37-year-old NAACP field secretary had been one of the leaders of the mass civil rights demonstrations that swept Jackson, Miss., this summer. On July 23, the FBI announced that Byron de la Beckworth had been taken into custody, and the next day the Jackson Police formally charged Beckworth with the murder of Evers...
DuBois, who died last August 27 in Accra, Ghana at the age of 95, was the first Negro to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. A distinguished historian, sociologist, and poet, he was co-founder of the NAACP in 1909. He became a Ghanaian citizen three years...
...struggle for equality and urging readers to take courage and pride in their Negro-ness. Many a Negro writer was first published and encouraged by Crises. Because of the magazine's financial stability, DuBois was able to say what he felt, without threat of recrimination for the NAACP...
With the great depression Crises began to fail, and DuBois realized that when the NAACP began to support the magazine financially he would no longer control its policy. So in 1933 he returned to Atlanta University for 10 years of research and teaching. By now he had published nine books, including two novels, Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) and Dark Princess (1928). It was in 1935 that he finally brought forth his monumental study, Black Reconstruction in America...
DuBois went back to work for the NAACP in 1944, and became the group's consultant to the United Nations. At that time Paul Robeson was Chairman of the Council on American Affairs and Dubois became associated with this group. But in 1946 the Cold War began and in 1947 the Justice Department issued a list of "subversive" organizations; it included the Council in its witch-hunt. DuBois' refusal to eschew either his views or his associations led to his swift dismissal from the NAACP...