W. E. B. Du Bois
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tole
Du Bois in 1907
The title page of Du Bois's Harvard dissertation, Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the United States of America: 1638–1871
Du Bois in 1904
Founders of the Niagara Movement in 1905. Du Bois is in the middle row, with white hat.
African-American literature
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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who became the first African American
Phillis Wheatley (c.1753–1784)
Frederick Douglass
Portrait of W.E.B. DuBois, photographed in 1918
Langston Hughes, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936