A Biography of W.E.B. Du Bois

While in high school Du Bois showed a keen concern for the development of his race. At age fifteen he became the local correspondent for the New York Globe. When he graduated from high school, he wanted to attend Harvard. However, he lacked the financial resources go there but with the help of friends and family he was able to attend Fisk College in Nashville, Tennessee. After graduation from Fisk, Du Bois entered Harvard as a junior. He received his bachelor's degree in 1890 and immediately began working toward his master's and doctoral degree.

While in Tennessee, Du Bois spent two summers teaching at a county school where he experienced prejudice and discrimination first hand, and learned about the overwhelming poverty and ignorance in the African American community. This experience put Du Bois on th

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ng to Jacqueline Moore in her book, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift, an ideological controversy grew over time between Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Washington argued the Black people should temporarily forego political power and an insistence on civil rights and should concentrate all their energies on economic advancement. Du Bois believed in the higher education of what he called a "Talented Tenth" who through their knowledge of modern culture could guide the American Negro. By February of 1900, Dubois was becoming more suspicious of Washington's motives for job offers at Tuskegee. Whatever grant, job placement or any endeavor concerning Blacks that influential whites received was sent to Mr. Washington for endorsement or rejection, and Mr. Washington became the focal point for decisions about race policy and race relations in America (Moore, 65). According to William M. Tuttle, Jr. in his book W.E.B. Du Bois, Du Bois met with black critics of Mr. Washington in January of 1906 and the Niagara Movement was formed. Its objectives were to advocate civil justice and abolish caste discrimination. In 1909, Du Bois attended a National Negro Conference held by white progressives, sympathe
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