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.
Marcus Garvey
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which
W. E. B. Du Bois
…formed League of Nations to address labor issues and to appoint Africans to key posts. The League took little action on the requests. Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey, promoter of the Back-to-Africa movement and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), denounced Du Bois's efforts to achieve…
Garvey in c. 1920
A statue of Garvey now stands in Saint Ann's Bay, the town where he was born
In London, Garvey spent time in the Reading Room of the British Museum
In 1918, Garvey's UNIA began publishing the Negro World newspaper.