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The 67 pages that link to W. E. B. Du Bois, each with the reason it gives.

• Harvard UniversityRelated: His scholarship and activism connect Harvard’s academic history with the struggle against racial injustice.

• Jim Crow lawsRelated: Du Bois rejected accommodation and helped organize opposition to racial subordination.

• African diasporaRelated: His scholarship and organizing connected Black communities across national borders.

• Franz BoasRelated: Du Bois and Boas both challenged scientific racism, though they worked in distinct intellectual traditions.

• Pan-AfricanismRelated: Du Bois helped convene congresses and linked racial equality with African self-government.

• Lost Cause of the ConfederacyCompared with: His scholarship challenged accounts that blamed Reconstruction’s failures on Black political participation.

• PhiladelphiaRelated: His 1899 study of Philadelphia’s Black community pioneered urban sociology.

• Ida B. WellsRelated: Du Bois and Wells shared early NAACP work, though they differed over organizational strategy.

• Booker T. WashingtonCompared with: Du Bois challenged Washington’s emphasis on vocational training and accommodation.

• Langston HughesRelated: Du Bois’s politics and journalistic platform formed part of Hughes’s public literary world.

• RacializationRelated: His work linked racial classification to historical power and lived experience.

• African-American historyRelated: His scholarship and activism shaped debates over race, citizenship, and political strategy.

• Marcus GarveyCompared with: His integrationist strategy and public disputes with Garvey exposed a sharp divide in Black politics.

• Paul RobesonRelated: Robeson shared Du Bois’s internationalist approach to Black freedom and anticolonialism.

• NAACPRelated: Du Bois shaped the association's early intellectual direction and edited its magazine, The Crisis.

• ProgressivismRelated: His civil-rights activism challenged reformers who treated racial equality as secondary.

• James Weldon JohnsonRelated: Du Bois and Johnson both advanced Black political rights through the NAACP.

• Black studiesRelated: His historical and sociological work anticipated central methods and questions of Black studies.

• Richard WrightRelated: Du Bois’s writings on race and double consciousness offer an earlier framework for questions Wright dramatized.

• Alain LockeCompared with: Du Bois’s more politically centered cultural arguments offer a useful comparison with Locke’s emphasis on art and pluralism.

• The CrisisRelated: He founded and edited The Crisis, shaping its early voice and program.

• Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesRelated: His teaching at Atlanta University connected HBCU scholarship with arguments for racial equality.

• Niagara MovementRelated: He supplied its intellectual leadership and drafted its declaration of principles.

• Racial upliftRelated: His criticism of accommodation shaped a competing vision of Black advancement.

• Talented TenthRelated: He formulated the Talented Tenth as a strategy for Black leadership and education.

• White supremacyRelated: His writing examined how racial hierarchy shaped law, labor, and political life.

• Anti-racismRelated: His scholarship and activism linked racial analysis with organized political struggle.

• Racism in the United StatesRelated: His scholarship named the color line as a defining problem of American society.

• Edward Wilmot BlydenRelated: Du Bois’s Pan-African organizing continued debates about diaspora solidarity that Blyden had helped establish.

• The New NegroRelated: His calls for Black political leadership and cultural representation informed debates around the ideal.

• American historiographyRelated: His scholarship directly challenged histories that minimized slavery, Black agency, and Reconstruction’s achievements.

• Carter G. WoodsonRelated: Du Bois’s scholarship and activism formed part of the contemporary debate over Black history and education.

• Josiah RoyceRelated: Du Bois’s idea of the beloved community developed in a context shaped by Royce’s social philosophy.

• The New SchoolRelated: Du Bois taught at The New School during the 1940s.

• Tuskegee InstituteCompared with: Du Bois criticized Washington's emphasis on vocational training and gradual political change.

• Walter WhiteRelated: Du Bois and White both shaped the NAACP’s public advocacy, though their strategies and roles differed.

• Aaron DouglasRelated: Du Bois's editorship gave Douglas early opportunities to publish illustrations for a national Black readership.

• Dunning SchoolCompared with: His 1935 history of Reconstruction directly challenged the school’s depiction of freedpeople and Black political leadership.

• Patricia Hill CollinsRelated: Collins's sociology of race builds within a field shaped by Du Bois's analysis of racial power and knowledge.

• Claude McKayRelated: Du Bois’s magazine The Crisis published McKay’s influential poem “If We Must Die.”

• Cornel WestRelated: West engages Du Bois’s analysis of race and the enduring problem of the color line.

• DuBose HeywardCompared with: His criticism of Porgy and Bess challenged its representation of Black life.

• Henry Louis Gates Jr.Related: Gates has edited and interpreted Du Bois’s work as a foundation of Black intellectual history.

• John Hope FranklinRelated: Du Bois’s scholarship preceded Franklin’s and helped establish rigorous study of Black history.

• The Souls of Black FolkNarrower topic: He wrote the collection from his scholarship and experience as a Black intellectual.

• Ashley MontaguRelated: Du Bois likewise challenged biological accounts of race, from a distinct intellectual and political tradition.

• American philosophyRelated: His work exposed how racial domination challenges American claims about freedom and democratic equality.

• Augusta SavageRelated: Savage sculpted a portrait bust of Du Bois, joining her art to Harlem’s intellectual life.

• Eric FonerRelated: Du Bois’s account of Reconstruction anticipated arguments Foner later helped restore to historical debate.

• Kwame Anthony AppiahRelated: Appiah engages critically with Du Bois’s account of race and African identity.