#WEB_Du_Bois: retracing his attempt to challenge racism with data | Culture | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/web-du-bois-racism-data-paris-african-americans-jobs
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Any African American to be admitted to Harvard University in 1888 had to be exceptionally gifted. But that description doesn’t come close to capturing the talent of WEB Du Bois, a man who managed to write 21 books, as well as over 100 essays while being a professor and a relentless civil rights activist.
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 51 – The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois (1903)
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Du Bois saw no trade-off between those pursuits – his scholarship was protest and his protest was scholarship. He deeply understood something that every activist scrawling a banner in Washington knows today – messaging matters.
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