Du Bois Chronology

Books by and about W.E.B. Du Bois

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade (1896) / The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899) / The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches

(1903) / John Brown (1909) / The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) / Darkwater: Voices Within the Veil (1920) Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the

Making of America (1924) / Dark Princess: A Romance (1928) / Black Reconstruction in America (1935) / Black Folk, Then and Now (1939)

Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (1945) / The World and Africa: An Inquiry (1947) / In Battle for Peace (1952)

A Trilogy: The Ordeal of Monsart (1957) Monsart Builds a School (1959) Worlds of Color (1961) / An ABC of Color: Selections (1963)

Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept

The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968)

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Shirley Graham Du Bois, His Day Is Marching On: A Memoir of W.E. B. Du Bois (1971)

Leslie Alexander Lacy. The Life of W.E.B. Du Bois: Cheer the Lonesome Traveler (1970)

Du Bois on Reform: Periodical-based Leadership for African Americans.

Edited and Introduced by Brian Johnson. New York Altamira Press (A Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), 2005

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W.E.B Du Bois Chronology & Writings

1868	Born 23 February in William Edward Burghardt Du Bois to Mary and Alfred Du Bois in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1884	Graduated as Valedictorian from Great Barrington High School
1885-88	Attends Fisk University; graduates as valedictorian (B.A.)
1888	Enters Harvard as a junior

1890	Graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard College
1891	Received a master of arts degree from Harvard University
1892	Began two year study at Freidrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, Germany (1892-1894)
1894	Joined the faculty at Wilberforce University
1896	Awarded the Ph.D. by Harvard, his doctoral dissertation (The Suppression of the African Slave Trade
	to the United States of America, 1638-1870) being published
	as Volume 1 in “Harvard Historical Sketches.”
1894-96	Professor of Greek and Latin, Wilberforce College, Ohio; marries Nina Gomer, a
	Wilberforce student, 1896 to Nina Gomer (d. 1950)
1896-97	Assistant Instructor in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, conducting research for
	The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899).
1897-1910	Professor of Economics and History, Atlanta University; organizer of the Atlanta
	University Conference’s “Studies of the Negro Problem” and editor of the
	Conference’s annual Publications.
1899	DuBois's son, Burghardt, died
1900	Attended the first Pan-African Congress; his daughter, Yolande, born
1903	Publishes *The Souls of Black Folk:* Essays and Sketches
1905-09	Becomes a founder and the General Secretary of the Niagara Movement.
1906	Founds and edits The Moon Illustrated Weekly.
1907-10	Founds and edits The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line.
1909	Publishes John Brown.
1910	Among the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
	People, serving (1910-34) as the NAACP’s Director of Publicity and Research and
	as editor of The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races
1911	Publishes *The Quest of the Silver Fleece* (a novel)
1915	Publishes The Negro.
1919	Chief Organizer of the Pan-African Congress (also organizing and attending meetings
	of the Congress in 1921, 1923, and 1927).
1920	Awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal; publishes Darkwater: Voices Within the Veil.
1920-21	Founds and edits The Brownies’ Book, a magazine for children.
1923-24	Makes first trip to Africa.
1924	Publishes the Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America.
1928	Publishes Dark Princess: A Romance (a novel).
1934	Resigns from the editorship of The Crisis and from the Board of the NAACP, returning to Atlanta University as Chairman of the Department of Sociology (1934-44).
1935	Publishes **Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1888**
1939	Publishes Black Folk, Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race.
1940	Founds and edits (to 1944) Phylon.
1944	Returns to NAACP (until 1948) as Director of Special Research.
1945	Publishes Encyclopedia of the Negro Preparatory Volume.
1945	Publishes Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace.
1947	Editor of the NAACP’s An Appeal to the World . . ., for presentation to the United Nations.

1947	Published The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History
1948	Resigned from the NAACP post; becomes chairman of the Council on African Affairs
1950	Chairman, Peace Information Center; American Labor Party candidate for U.S. Senate
	from New York; wife, Nina Gomer Du Bois dies. Campaigns for the U.S. Senate
1951	Federal indictment, trial, and acquittal on charges of being an “unregistered foreign
	agent.” later acquitted
1952	Marries writer Shirley Graham.
1952	Publishes In Battle for Peace: The Story of My 83^rd Birthday.
1957-1961	Publishes The Black Flame—A Trilogy: The Ordeal of Monsart (1957) Monsart Builds a School (1959)
	and Worlds of Color (1961).
1958-59	Extensive travels to “Iron Curtain” countries.
1960	Du Bois's daughter, Yolande, died
1961	Joins the Communist Party of the United States; at the invitation of President Kwame
	Nkrumah, becomes a resident of Ghana and Director of the Encyclopedia Africana.
1963	Publishes *An ABC of Color*: Selections from Over a Half Century of the Writings of W.E.B. DuBois
1963	Becomes a citizen of Ghana, dying in Accra on August 27, 1963.
1968	The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century is published posthumously

Other Writings

Books

The Conservation of Races (Washington, D.C.: American Negro Academy, 1897).

Africa: Its Geography, People and Products (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1930).

Africa: Its Place in Modern History (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1930).

Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940)

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses, edited by Philip S. Foner (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1970).

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Crisis Writing, editing by Daniel Walden (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1972).

The Emerging Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: Essays and Editorials From "The Crisis," edited by Henry Lee Moon (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972)

The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906-1960, edited by Herbert Aptheker (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1973.