| 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 |
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to the United States of America, 1638-1870)
being published |
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as Volume 1 in
“Harvard Historical Sketches.” |
| 1894-96 |
Professor of
Greek and Latin, Wilberforce College, Ohio; marries Nina
Gomer, a |
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Wilberforce
student, 1896 to Nina Gomer (d. 1950) |
| 1896-97 |
Assistant
Instructor in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania,
conducting research for |
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The
Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899). |
| 1897-1910 |
Professor of
Economics and History, Atlanta University; organizer of
the Atlanta |
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University
Conference’s “Studies of the Negro Problem” and
editor of the |
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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 |
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People,
serving (1910-34) as the NAACP’s Director of Publicity
and Research and |
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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 |
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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. |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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agent.”
later acquitted |
| 1952 |
Marries
writer Shirley Graham. |
| 1952 |
Publishes
In Battle for Peace: The Story of My 83rd
Birthday. |
| 1957-1961 |
Publishes
The Black Flame—A Trilogy:
The Ordeal of Monsart
(1957)
Monsart Builds
a School (1959) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky
surveys the dangers and prospects of our
early twenty-first century. Exploring
challenges such as the growing gap
between North and South, American
exceptionalism (including under
President Barack Obama), the fiascos of
Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli
assault on Gaza, and the recent
financial bailouts, he also sees hope
for the future and a way to move
forward—in the democratic wave in Latin
America and in the global solidarity
movements that suggest "real progress
toward freedom and justice." Hopes and
Prospects is essential reading for
anyone who is concerned about the
primary challenges still facing the
human race. "This is a classic Chomsky
work: a bonfire of myths and lies,
sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky
is an enduring inspiration all over the
world—to millions, I suspect—for the
simple reason that he is a truth-teller
on an epic scale. I salute him." —John
Pilger
In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of
American empire and class domination, at
home and abroad, Chomsky continues a
longstanding and crucial work of
elucidation and activism . . .the
writing remains unswervingly rational
and principled throughout, and lends
bracing impetus to the real alternatives
before us.—Publisher's
Weekly
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