Du Bois took college preparatory classes while in high school. He was also a column writer of a newspaper, the New York Globe. While still young he attended town meetings to listen to people discuss concerns of the town. He spoke about Wendell Phillips at his high school graduation. Du Bois’s mother unexpectedly died in 1884. After high school, he attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

At Fisk he took part in public speaking and debates. He edited the Fisk Herald, the school’s paper. At Fisk he realized that his goal was not for his own happiness, but for the advancement of the black race. He graduated from Fisk in 1886 with an A. B. degree. After Fisk he was accepted into Harvard. In 1895 Du Bois became the first African American to get a Ph.D. from Harvard. Even with a Ph. D. from Harvard he did not feel he was ready to deal with the problems that African Americans faced. He then spent two years at Berlin University. This

According to Zhang Juguo, many believe that after the 1930’s Du Bois gave up hope that white Americans would give up discrimination. After World War II he moved away from advancing African American people and towards socialism.

W.E.B. Du Bois was a great African American thinker. According to Zhang Juguo, “He spoke with eloquence and wielded his powerful pen to enunciate his ideas.” Unfortunately during Du Bois’s time white Americans were not open-minded and African Americans did not accept his primary goals. In his later years he began losing support and seemed to travel alone. He somehow began losing trust and received bitter feelings from people. It even grew to the point of harassment. He eventually lost all hope in American democracy and the capitalistic ways. He joined the American Communist Party in 1961 and moved to Ghana, Africa. He passed away on August 27, 1961. I am confident that his accomplishments will be remembered in the future.

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