{"product_id":"web-dubois","title":"W.E.B. Du Bois Poster: Scholar, Organizer, Visionary (Print)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois was a historian, sociologist, editor, and Pan-Africanist whose seven decades of scholarship and struggle laid much of the intellectual foundation of the Black freedom movement. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868, he became the first Black person to earn a doctorate from Harvard. His study The Philadelphia Negro was one of the first works of empirical sociology in the United States. In The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, he described the \"double consciousness\" of Black Americans and declared that the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDu Bois refused the politics of accommodation. He helped found the Niagara Movement and then the NAACP, and for nearly twenty-five years he edited its magazine The Crisis, making it a powerful voice against lynching and segregation and a showcase for Black writers and artists. He believed art must serve the struggle for freedom, arguing in \"Criteria of Negro Art\" that all art is propaganda. He organized a series of Pan-African Congresses that linked the struggles of Black people in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. In Black Reconstruction in America, he showed that Black workers had been central agents of democracy after the Civil War, and that its overthrow was a defeat for the entire working class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs his politics moved steadily to the left, Du Bois became a target of the Cold War state. In 1951, at eighty-two, he was indicted as an unregistered foreign agent for his work in the peace movement, and though he was acquitted, the government revoked his passport. In 1961 he joined the Communist Party and accepted Kwame Nkrumah's invitation to move to Ghana, where he became a citizen and began work on an Encyclopedia Africana. He died in Accra on August 27, 1963, on the eve of the March on Washington. His legacy endures in the long tradition of Black radical thought he helped build, joining scholarship, internationalism, and the fight for a socialist world free of the color line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44897215905963,"sku":null,"price":51.89,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/files\/WEBDUBOIS11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1738447472","url":"https:\/\/anotherworldpress.org\/en-ca\/products\/web-dubois","provider":"Another World Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}