Rizo Lenshyn, German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” W. Portrait taken by writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. Du Bois in Black Reconstruction in America (1935)Ĭhosen by Alexandria Russell, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Rutgers University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow
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“The slave went free stood a brief moment in the sun then moved back again toward slavery.” W. Du Bois in Of the Ruling of Men (1920)Ĭhosen by Adam Dahl, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow “We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.” W. Du Bois (1968)Ĭhosen by Freeden Blume Oeur, Associate Professor of Sociology and Education at Tufts University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow “You are not and yet you are: your thoughts, your deeds, above all your dreams still live.” W. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)Ĭhosen by Jay Cephas, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Northeastern University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.” W. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town or, I fought at Mechanicsville or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may inquire.
“Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. Group portrait of Du Bois and friends and family at his 70th birthday celebration at Atlanta University, 1938.
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