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W.E.B. DuBois was born “by a golden river and in the shadow of two great hills” in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1968, the year when “the freedmen of the South were enfranchised and…took part in government.” (DuBois 8) He graduated from Fisk College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1888 and was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895. While teaching at Wilberforce College and Atlanta University, DuBois published The Souls of Black Folk, an essay expressing the conflicting anger and sadness of blacks in a supposedly modern America. In 1910, after working on several other Little Magazines (The Moon and The Horizon) DuBois, joined on as the founding editor of The Crisis, an NAACP sponsored little magazine which he edited for twenty five years. A prolific and persuasive writer, DuBois was a caustic, active, and well published figure in the nascent civil rights struggles in 20th century America.
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