Essays on Web Dubois

The color line theory refers to the divide between races, often invisible but sometimes physical. Laws and society prevented African Americans from achieving equality in a post-slavery era and continued to pose a problem to Black identity. As a result of this, DuBois argued Blacks...

After the great expansion west and the civil war, America was finally starting to grab onto the idea that all people deserve to be treated equally and fairly. Post-civil war through the earliest 20th century brought new amendments to the constitution which were supposed to...

W.E.B Du Bois is one of the renowned scholars in the field of history, civil rights activism and above all, sociology. There is an interesting story of his life, deep-rooted in his well-spent years of success in the career of sociology. W.E.B Du Bois won...

The life and career of W.E.B DuBois was vastly multi-faceted and prolific, and his scope of talents and global citizenship encompasses various disciplines. “While his contributions to civil rights, sociology, history, African American Studies and Urban studies are universally recognized, his legacy in public health...

The ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington sit on two different sides of the spectrum for fixing race relations in America following reconstruction. W.E.B. Du Bois ideas for race progression for African Americans were “radical” because he called for political action, persistent...

W.E.B. DuBois was born in Great Barrington Massachusetts 1868. He graduated from Barrington Massachusetts high school in 1884. Soon after that, DuBois went to college in Cambridge Massachusetts until 1892 when he moved to Germany to receive more education. Afterwards he taught in Ohio. It...

The Harlem Renaissance was a time of mass creativity within the black community in the Harlem neighborhood in New York. Their creative abilities shown through many ways such as spoken word and poetry, writing, artistry, and music. The time period also held some great intellectuals...

W.E.B Dubois’ The Souls of the Black Folk is a thoughtful and eye-opening insight on how despite slavery being abolished, African Americans are still an oppressed force in America. “The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found...

Booker T Washington and W.E.B. DuBois were two very prominent speaker/writers in to aid blacks in attaining their freedom and further expand their civil liberties. These two had ideals that would impact the mindsets of the African-American community and whites collectively. Both authors have stories...

Du Bois was the first African American to graduate with a PHD from Harvard, and among many other studious lifetime achievements, he was a monumental spokesperson for African American rights in the 19th and 20th centuries. Du Bois, a conflict theorist, has several writings that...