W.E.B. DuBois: Giant Intellectual Activist

W.E.B DuBois (1868-1963) was the foremost African American intellectual of the twentieth century. His life spanned almost a century and he contributed to many different strands of African American social, cultural, political and intellectual life. Below, please find links to important facets of his career.

Note: This blog was compiled by and reprinted with permission by Abdul Akalimat, PhD

BIOGRAPHY

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois

Images https://tinyurl.com/59trvcft

WRITINGS

U Mass Digital Archive https://credo.library.umass.edu/search?q=*&fq=FacetCollectionID:mums312

Books: Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/226

Books: Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28%22Du+Bois%22+OR+%22DuBois%22%29+AND+%28%22W.+E.%22+OR+William%29%29

Audio Books https://librivox.org/author/1655?primary_key=1655&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results

Founding Editor of Crisis Magazine (NAACP) https://modjourn.org/journal/crisis/

Poetry http://duboiscenter.library.umass.edu/about-du-bois/the-poetry-of-w-e-b-du-bois/

VOICE

A recorded autobiography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooa-CzT7NWg

Socialism and the American Negro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKXglS90qn4

World Peace and the Revolt in Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceONKcsAxk0

What is Life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfufWBXwyEI

Youth Radicalization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFfrf-HWh9s

Life in Socialist China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yV5KbAzjVY

Global

China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEMkUZATqIo

Ghana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaPLtt5Ppe4

Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zx_ErShoo4

France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLkjtXqQEI0

Soviet Union https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weqBtgefu5o

About

Herbert Aptheker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anpYQNtas0s

David Lewis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSY5eD8boqg

Gerald Horne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYQa9EnG8Ck

David DuBois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqURMWBCyYo&list=PLCwE4GdJdVRKAOedzD4yDfJ2iB1HbUWl6

Anthony Monteiro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfVe_VhAyAk

Cornel West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_00JnuJyovc

Michael Burawoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jXDptQrdeQ

Molefi Asante https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcwD_3Y_DxM

DuBois and Nkrumah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTPfnvWKU0g&t=187s

The Year of DuBois https://www.yearofdubois.org/

Four Voices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRboLFZlwgE

Institutions

The W. E. B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst http://duboiscenter.library.umass.edu/

The W. E. B. DuBois Center in Accra , Ghana http://webduboiscentreaccra.ghana-net.com/index.html

W E B DuBois College House https://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/about/dubois

Great Barrington Middle School named after DuBois https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/04/metro/embrace-web-du-bois-great-barrington-names-middle-school-after-civil-rights-icon/

Annual Lectures Names After DuBois

Harvard University https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/du-bois-virtual-lecture-series

University of Maryland Baltimore County https://umbc.edu/event/44th-annual-w-e-b-du-bois-lecture-with-christel-n-temple/

Bard College Simons Rock https://simons-rock.edu/academics/beyond-the-classroom/speakers-events/du-bois-lecture.php

University of Southern Maine https://usm.maine.edu/publicaffairs/annual-w-e-b-dubois-lecture-addresses-segregation-outside-southern-us

Colgate University https://thecolgatemaroonnews.com/25689/news/annual-shirley-graham-and-w-e-b-dubois-lecture-hosts-dr-tianna-paschel/

FBI

Surveillance Files https://vault.fbi.gov/E.%20B.%20%28William%29%20Dubois