A Piece of History: W.E.B. Du Bois … By: LaQuesha Williams admin Wednesday, February 5, 2014 The Receipt “To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.” – The Souls of Black Folk (1903) The quote above is what William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, but who most people know just as W.E.B Du Bois, once said. Du Bois changed African American history by not only being the first African American to earn a doctorate, but he was also the founder of the Niagara Movement and was co-founder for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. Du Bois didn’t fight for just Blacks, but for all “coloreds,” especially when it came to protesting lynching and the discrimination in education and the workforce, as well as Jim Crow Laws. Just a reminder Jim Crow Laws were nothing but anti-black laws, keeping everything non-black such as schools and other public places. Du Bois should be remembered and celebrated this month for his contribution to Black history and leaving a permanent mark on the timeline of our history.
