Father of Civil Rights

"W.E.B. Du Bois" by US Department of State is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

                                                                            William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (W.E.B. Du Bois) was an American sociologist and civil rights activist. Bois was born in Great Barrington Massachusetts where he was in a family of a small free population. Bois studied at Fisk University, a historically black college, where he first experienced Southern racism. These experiences helped define who Bois is as he started questioning the behaviors of society. In the year 1900, Bois wrote the "The Exhibit of American Negroes" where he composed hundreds of photographs depicting the future of African Americans. These pictures included charts, graphs, and maps. As well as a sociologist, Bois was also a civil rights activist. He criticized presidents for their racist beliefs such as when he urged black people to withdraw from the Teddy Roosevelt's republican party because they were supported insufficiently. Du Bois alongside the NAACP wanted to boycott and ban the movie "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915 because of its racist portrayal of black people. In my opinion, I think Du Bois was ahead of his time, almost as if he saw in order to make America great, we need to make it free for all which includes 

black people. Du Bois's work will be studied for generations and his ability to understand society to a point of predicting it is nothing short but incredible

              

                                                                           

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