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Re: CA poverty rate is higher than the U.S. average

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Apr 17 22:57:42 2018, in response to Re: Ology of Terror IV, posted by DanD124 on Tue Apr 17 22:40:52 2018.

In The Crisis (magazine), Du Bois directed a constant stream of agitation—often bitter and sarcastic—at white Americans while serving as a source of information and pride to African Americans. The magazine always published young African American writers. Racial protest during the decade following World War I focused on securing anti-lynching legislation. During this period, the NAACP was the leading protest organization and Du Bois its leading figure.

In 1934, Du Bois resigned from the NAACP board and from The Crisis because of his new advocacy of an African American nationalist strategy that ran in opposition to the NAACP’s commitment to integration. However, he returned to the NAACP as director of special research from 1944 to 1948. During this period, he was active in placing the grievances of African Americans before the United Nations, serving as a consultant to the UN founding convention (1945) and writing the famous “An Appeal to the World” (1947).

Du Bois identified as a socialist and belonged to the Socialist Party from 1910 to 1912.