Dos Passos, John Roderigo
Dos Passos born in 1896 was a novelist of America. His famous writing is the Trilogy.
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Some Famous books Written by Du Bois are:
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade (1896).
The Philadelphia Negro (1899).
Souls of Black Folk (1903).
The World and Africa (1947).
In Battle for Peace (1952).
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963), American writer and scholar, was one of the leading black intellectuals of the first half of the 1900's. He worked hard to try to achieve civil rights for black people in the United States. His support for the freedom of people in Africa led him to take part in the first Pan-African conference in 1900. At this conference, black Africans, Americans and West Indians discussed the future of black people in Africa and elsewhere. He was also involved in other Pan-African congresses in the 1920's and in 1945. In 1905, he founded the Niagara Movement to fight injustice against black people, and in 1909 helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Du Bois edited the NAACP journal Crisis from 1910 to 1932.
Du Bois was born at Great Barrington in Massachusetts, and studied at Harvard. From 1896-1910, Du Bois was professor of economics and history at Atlanta University. He headed the sociology department there from 1932-1944. A year before his death, he settled in Accra, Ghana.
