DuBois gained his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and then worked for and received a masters and doctorate from the same institution after which he proceeded to do the most comprehensive study of the Negro and race relations even undertaken.

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It is difficult to define and chart DuBois's intellectual evolution on the question of the role of Black art. At the beginning of the Renaissance, DuBois, scholar Gary Wintz writes, "Advanced art over propaganda," calling not for an all-positive portrayal of Blacks in literature but for a multi-faceted, balanced one. This position, however, evolved over time to a public acceptance of art as propaganda because DuBois rejected the idea of art-for-arts'-sake proposed by contemporaries such as scholar Alain Locke and artist-activist James Weldon Johnson.

“My first rather bitter falling out with Villard was at a meeting of the Board of Directors. Villard presumed to tell me how to edit The Crisis, and suggested that with my monthly record of lynchings, I also publish a list of Negro crimes. I resented this, not only because it was logically silly, but because it was interfering with my business. It was for this reason and from similar clashes that he finally resigned the chairmanship of the board and was replaced by Joel Spingarn.”

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