ABSTRACT
W. E. B. Du Bois's career will hardly be astonished that one person can have two activities, since in point of fact; Du Bois had more like ten career lines in a single lifetime. Indeed, he was as adroit in history, demography, and economics as in sociology; and his record of public service and political activity has already filled numerous biographical accounts. If sociology was to speak to the black people it would need to do so through instruments not in control of established professional organizations or a narrow band of university elites. The long march that links The Crisis to Society, the ninety years of a tradition at one institution with twenty-five years of an allied tradition at another, makes some sense-divine if not empirical. James Weldon Johnson once wrote that taking a stroll in Harlem "was not simply going out for a walk, it is like going out for an adventure".
