W. E. B. Dubois Research Paper

William Edward Burghardt commonly know as W.E.B Du Bois was a African American sociologist from Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois came in to age in the 1890s, roughly around the Progressive era. W.E.B. Du Bois was not only a African American sociologist, but also a Pan-Africanist, author, and a civil rights activist who expressed his ideas and activism freely through his studies and literature which include,The Souls of Black Folk, The Negro, Black Reconstruction, The Philadelphia Negro, and through his participation in The National Association for the advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Through his work Du Bois expressed and strived for the equal treatment of African Americans in the United States. Although W.E.B Du Bois shared the same common goal as many other social leaders, Du Bois’s ideas were expressed in a unique way which is evident in Du Bois’s Conservation of Races of 1897, that directly impacted the promotion of
W.E.B Du Bois’s idea’s of science helped explain the believed racial characteristics of the different types of races in the American society. During this era the U.S society viewed people from different races and skin color differently. Around this time African Americans and people of color were looked down upon. African Americans we not given the same privileges and were treated different than people of lighter skin. Many social leaders took a stand and were willing to help African Americans change the way the black race was perceived by the rest of society, such as Booker T. Washington. However Du Bois had a different approach to help uplift and reject the negative