The United States' Civil Rights Act, embodying many of the reforms for which Du Bois had campaigned his entire life, was enacted a year after his death.
وقد جسد "قانون الحقوق المدنية" التابع للولايات المتحدة العديد من الإصلاحات التي كان يدعمها دو بويز طوال حياته، وقد شُرعت بعد عام من وفاته.