W.E.B. DuBois
W.E.B. DuBois was a racial rights agitator, who demanded segregation's end right then and there. He co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Niagara Movement. DuBois was a staunch opponent of racism, and did everything in his power to stop it.
DuBois co-founded the Niagara Movement, which ultimately failed, but before it did, DuBois worked jointly with his fellow co-founder William Monroe Trotter, along with their other associates, and made a draft of the 'Declaration of Principles'. In it, it stated that 'any discrimination based simply on race or color is barbarous' and that 'Differences made on account ... place of birth, color of skin, are relics of that unreasoning human savagery of which the world is and ought to be thoroughly ashamed.' What it is basically saying, is that no matter where you come from, or what you look like, you shouldn't be discriminated against.
DuBois created the NAACP, and with it a great source of hope for 'colored' people. Starting in 1910, DuBois used the Crisis magazine to keep up a perpetual torrent of agitation toward white people, and to bolster the black society's resolve. Later in his career, he tried to pressure the government into passing an anti-lynching legislation. Soon, he wouldIn 1918, the Dyer Anti-Lynching Act was merely a bill, but by 1922, it had become law. W.E.B. DuBois' work with the NAACP went on hiatus when he resigned in 1934, but he returned in 1944, only to leave once again, in 1948, ,to never returned. Instead, DuBois turned into a Communist, and eventually supported Pan-Africanism.
DuBois co-founded the Niagara Movement, which ultimately failed, but before it did, DuBois worked jointly with his fellow co-founder William Monroe Trotter, along with their other associates, and made a draft of the 'Declaration of Principles'. In it, it stated that 'any discrimination based simply on race or color is barbarous' and that 'Differences made on account ... place of birth, color of skin, are relics of that unreasoning human savagery of which the world is and ought to be thoroughly ashamed.' What it is basically saying, is that no matter where you come from, or what you look like, you shouldn't be discriminated against.
DuBois created the NAACP, and with it a great source of hope for 'colored' people. Starting in 1910, DuBois used the Crisis magazine to keep up a perpetual torrent of agitation toward white people, and to bolster the black society's resolve. Later in his career, he tried to pressure the government into passing an anti-lynching legislation. Soon, he wouldIn 1918, the Dyer Anti-Lynching Act was merely a bill, but by 1922, it had become law. W.E.B. DuBois' work with the NAACP went on hiatus when he resigned in 1934, but he returned in 1944, only to leave once again, in 1948, ,to never returned. Instead, DuBois turned into a Communist, and eventually supported Pan-Africanism.