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On January 10, 1956, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote a letter to his good friend, fellow Marxist, and literary executor Herbert Aptheker that briefly explored his notions on the existence of “Absolute Truth” and his faith in human beings’ ability to use science and reason to change the world. Du Bois noted that he gave up the search for absolute truth at a fairly young age because he did not think current research methods would provide a fruitful means to apprehend it, thus causing him to turn toward scientific hypothesis as a means of approximating truth as much as possible.

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When beginning his well-known sociological studies at Atlanta University in the early twentieth century, Du Bois “began to count and classify the facts concerning the American Negro and the way to his betterment through human action. I assumed that human beings could alter and re-direct the course o

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Guest Colloquium Speaker Ellis Monk, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

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The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Announces its Sixth Class of W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows

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W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line

This biography reveals W.E.B. Du Bois as a radical and revolutionary thinker who challenged capitalism, imperialism and racism, finds Adam Tomes

Bill Mullen, W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line (Pluto Press 2016), vi, 169pp.

W.E.B. Du Bois was born just three years after the end of the American Civil War and died one day before the March on Washington in 1963. His life spanned almost a hundred years of social and political change in the USA, framed around some of the most important international events. During this time, he is remembered as the highest profile African-American intellect and a ‘master of propaganda’ (p.41), as he described himself. He was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard, he played a lead role in the NAACP, which challenged the Jim Crow laws, and edited The Crisis, the most important African-American publication in the United States. In many ways