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Du Bois rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks.

]]> 2018-02-20 19:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233457001 s1225718 https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233468129 Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemics, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. ]]> 2018-02-20 19:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233468129 s1225718 https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233471756 Du Bois was a prolific author. His collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, was a seminal work in African-American literature; and his 1935 magnum opus Black Reconstruction in America challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction Era. Borrowing a phrase from Frederick Douglass, he popularized the use of the term color line to represent the injustice of the separate but equal doctrine prevalent in American social and political life.]]> 2018-02-20 19:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233471756 s1225718 https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233476239 2018-02-20 19:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233476239 s1225718 https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233908778 In 1900 Du Bois attended the First Pan-African Conference, held in London from July 23 to 25. (This was just before the Paris Exhibition of 1900 "to allow tourists of African descent to attend both events".)^[40] It was organized by men from the Caribbean: Haitians Anténor Firmin and Bénito Sylvain and Trinidadian barrister Henry Sylvester Williams.^[41] Du Bois played a leading role, drafting a letter ("Address to the Nations of the World")^[42] to European leaders appealing to them to struggle against racism]]> 2018-02-21 18:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233908778 s1225718 https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233911781 2018-02-21 18:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/s1225718/391muw1bcfbz/wish/233911781