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The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford world s classicsTHE Souls OF Black FOLKW. E. B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on23 February 1868. In 1885 he went to Fisk University where heedited the Fisk Herald. After graduating in June 1888 he continuedhis studies at Harvard College, gaining an MA degree in history in1891. Following further study at the Friedrich Wilhelm Universityin Berlin, he returned to the United States in 1894 to take a teachingposition in classics at Wilberforce University in Xenia, Ohio. DuBois became the first Black to receive his from Harvard in1895 and moved to Philadelphia the next year to pursue a socio-logical study of Black life there. After accepting a faculty position ineconomics and history at Atlanta University, he gained renown as anintellectual in the next decade with the publication of The Souls ofBlack Folk (1903) and his participation in the Niagara Movement, agroup of Black leaders assembled in 1905 to promote full civil andeconomic rights for blacks.
African American intellectual elite at the turn of the century. Born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, he had studied at Fisk, the black college in Nashville, Tennessee, before pursuing a second BA and an MA degree at Harvard, where he worked with some of the most important scholars of the time, including Frank Taussig in
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