To view some of the photos, click here , here , and here . To read some of Du Bois' Crisis editorials, click here . To read about the magazine's role in the Harlem Renaissance, click here . To buy the Library of America's collection of Du Bois' writings, click here . What Du Bois did should not be surprising since he was always interested in Africa and claimed it to be his fatherland.
Truth is that the man never went away.
Dubois is also known internationally as one of the influential shapers of Pan Africanism. His intellectual give and take with the dynamic Kwame N'Krumah is evident from their writings. Greenberg claims that DuBois was a pariah during the heyday of the Civil Rights era. Illustration by Charlie Powell. All rights reserved.