1868–1963
Scholar and co-founder of the NAACP; pioneer of modern sociology.
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) endures among the great of African Diaspora. Scholar and co-founder of the NAACP; pioneer of modern sociology.
Across the modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost.
Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.
Submitted with honor.
Submitted by the Honored Ancestors Editorial Committee.
