St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-05
Famed Leader DR..
w. {. B. Dubois Buried
In Ghono, Africo
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of the Pan-African Congress. It
was a conference of the Congress,
in Manchester, England, in 1945,
that he became acquainted with
President Kwame Nlnumah, then
a student.
Dubois engaged in a long stand
ing and sometime bitter feud with
another famous Negro, Booker T.
Washington. Dubois was an advo-
cate of classical education and dis
agreed with Washington's theory
that Negroes could elevate them
selves, by their own boostraps
through trade training.
He was a member of the Amer
lean National Institute Of Arts and
Letters, Knight Commander of the
Liberian Order of African Redemp-
ton and was a United States spec
ial envoy to Liberia in 1923.
DR.. Dubois received the A. B.
degree from Fisk university, Nash
vile, Tenn; ABB, A. M, and Phi.
D. degrees from Harvard universi-
ty, Cambridge, Mass, and also
studied at Berlin university in
Germany. Other degrees included
the LID. from Howard university,
Washington, and from Atlanta
university; the Lift. D., Fisk;
L.H.D. Wilberforce (Ohio) univer-
sity and University of Sofia; DR..
Sci. of History Charles University,
Prague, and Lomonovska, Moscow
and Econ. D., Humboldt Universi-
ty, Berlin. He was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa and a fellow Of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
He was professor of Greek and
Latin, Wilberforce university, 1884,
90; assistant instructor, University
of Pennsylvania, 1896-97, and pro-
fessor of economics and history at
Atlanta university, 1897 1910.
From 1894, he was head of the
sociology department at Atlanta.
DR.. Dubois was director Of pub
Hcations of the NAACP and editor
founder Of Crisis magazine, the
NAACP journal, 1902. He was
vice chairman of the Council on
African Affairs, 1949-54; editor of
Prylon quarterly review, 1904,
and recipient Of the Lenin Inter
national Peace Prize, 1858.
The scholarly Dubois attended
the Accra world Without a
Bomb" assembly last year ait which
he appealed to the world for peace.
He was author Of: The Suppress
sion Of the Slave Trade, 1895; The
Philadelphia Negro, 1899; The
Souls Of Black Folk, 1903; John
Brown, 1909; Quest Of the Dark
Princess, 1928; Black Reconstruc-
ton, 1885; Black Folk: Then and
Now, 1889; Dusk Of Dawn, 1910;
Color and Democracy, 1945; The
World and Africa, 1947; In Battle
for Peace, 1852; The Black Flame,
A Trilogy: The Ordeal of Mansart, !.
1857, Mansart Builds a School,
1859; Worlds of Color, 1861. He
was author of Atlanta University
Studies, 1S97-1911.
DR.. Dubois was the son Of Al
fred Dubois, a Negro, and Mary
(Burghardt) Dubois, Of French
Huguenot and Dutch descent.
Supposedly a member of the
Communist Party at the time of
his death, DR.. Dubois had been
associated with a number of left
ist movements while a US. resi-
dent. He was indicted In 1851. AS
an officer Of the Information Cent
er Of New York City, he was
charged with failure to register
with the government as a foreign
agent. The government charged
the center was engaged in Soviet
propaganda. Later that year, a
federal judge acquitted all the de-
fendants.
DR.. Dubois is survived by his /
widow, author Shirley Graham,
who was living here with him and |
a daughter, Mrs. Nina Yolande
Williams of Baltimore born Of his |
first marriage.
His first wife, Nina Conner, died
In 1850. A son born Of the first
union, Burghardt Conner, is de-
ceased.