W.E.B.+Du+Bois

[|David Levering Lewis], a [|biographer], wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of [|twentieth-century] [|racism] — [|scholarship], [|propaganda], [|integration], national [|self-determination], [|human rights], cultural and [|economic] [|separatism], [|politics], international [|communism], [|expatriation], [|third world] [|solidarity]."[|[3]]
 * William Edward Burghardt Du Bois** (pronounced [|/duːˈbɔɪz/] )[|[1]] (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an [|American] [|civil rights activist], [|public intellectual], [|Pan-Africanist], [|sociologist], [|educator], [|historian], [|writer], [|editor], [|poet], and [|scholar]. He became a [|naturalized] [|citizen] of [|Ghana] in 1963 at the age of 95.[|[2]]

One of the most influential African American leaders to emerge during the period; a strong supporter of civil rights; believed that access to college education and vocational training offered the best chance of progress for African Americans