Annotations of “Strivings of the Negro People”:
- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois established himself as the foremost African American intellectual of the twentieth century.
- Du Bois wrote important works of history, sociology, prose fiction, and essays.
- He was also an important political leader , one of the founders in 1909 of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People “NAACP), which has as a primary goal overturning the Plessy decision.
- Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, he attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, a black school founded during Reconstruction.
- He began his teaching career at Wilberforce University in Ohio and the University of Pennsylvania.
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