W.E.B Du Bois W.E.B Du Bois was a black American historian and sociologist, who conducted the initial research on the black experience in the United States. His work established the way for the civil rights, African, and Black Power movements in the United States. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War. Unlike most black Americans, his family had …showed first 75 words of 2340 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2340 total…last statement to the world was one of hope and confidence in the ability of human beings to shape their own destinies. "One thing alone I charge you," he wrote. “As you live, believe in Life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the Great End comes slowly, because time is long.” -W.E.B Dubois