ABSTRACT
After graduating from Fisk University in 1888, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois studied at Harvard, with a period abroad at the University of Berlin, and received a PhD. degree from Harvard in 1895. Du Bois was the leader of a small band of intellectuals who advocated literary education for the "talented tenth" of Negro society in opposition to Washington. His works include Black Reconstruction, 1935; Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race, 1939; Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept, 1940; and Color and Democracy, 1945. The American Negro Academy must point out a practical path of advance to the Negro people. There lie before every Negro today hundreds of questions of policy and right which must be settled and which each one settles now, not in accordance with any rule, but by impulse or individual preference.
