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W.E.B. Du Bois embraced science to fight racism as editor of NAACP's magazine The Crisis

  • Written by Jordan Besek, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University at Buffalo
imageW.E.B. Du Bois in his office at The Crisis in New York City, 1925.W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, CC BY-ND

The NAACP – the most prominent interracial civil rights organization in American history – published the first issue of The Crisis, its...

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