February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963 Harvard PhD in History Lead NAACP Author- The Philadelphia Negro, Souls of Black Folk
The most prominent intellectual leader and political activist in the first half of the twentieth century. Founded NAACP Double Conscious Mind
Jews Non Whites Talented Tenth Attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth- century racism—scholarship, propaganda, scholarship, national self determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, and third world solidarity.