W.E.B. Du Bois was a prominent social scientist, civil rights activist, and the first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard in 1895. He criticized the vocational education approach advocated by leaders like Booker T. Washington, arguing it perpetuated racial inferiority and called for direct action against racial discrimination. The document also highlights Du Bois's major sociological contributions and thoughts on education and community among African Americans, as well as the impact of his work on sociology and the quest for racial justice.

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W.E.B Dubois was a social scientist, an activist for civil rights,
writer, and editor. He was
born on 23/02/1868 in great Barrington, Massachusetts, where
he was raised in an extended
family. He made a significant contribution to social work in
society. He was enrolled in Fisk
University, Berlin University, and Harvard University between
1885-1894, where he had the

2. opportunity to meet many sociologists. He became Harvard
University's first Black American to
graduate in doctor of philosophy in 1895. Black Folk Souls
urged blacks to fight racial inequality
in their practice and opposed black leaders like Washington's
civil rights policies. In the early
20th century, he spoke out for African American rights. At
Atlanta Wilberforce University, he
taught Greek and Latin, where he focused on teaching and
engaging in liberation movements
while questioning American discrimination.
Dubois' main objective was to speak out against racial
discrimination suffered by the
African Americans from the white people. In 1899, the
Philadelphia Negro was the first case he
studied about the African American community. He explained in
this study of a tenth of African
Americans will be rulers of their group. This also tried to point
the employment discrimination
and accommodation as the obstacles to prospering black people
in the north and on racial justice.
He questioned so much how blacks highly regarded vocational
education than their social life,
such as higher learning and politics. Washington's assertion was

3. always that the way African
Americans were able to eliminate this segregation was by
working hard and prosperity, so they
should accept it because they never had any other way. Du Bois
regarded this as an approach for
weakening Black people to make them inferior. He fought for
equality in every way.
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Source Source Summary
Sociology and the Black community by
DuBois.
The book summarizes W.E.B Dubois major
sociological works from 1898 through 1910.
The eighteen examples comprise five on both
the sociology and scholarly research definition
of Du Bois. Credible sources from experiences
of black communities in Southern and
Northern America, in particular as an
instrument in the fight for racial justice.
WEB Du Bois. Routledge by Rabaka It describes the
tremendous sociological work
of Dubois, The Philadelphia Negro, based on

4. sociological study and participant perception.
Under one of his best early responses on the
fledging professionalism of sociology, DuBois
observed that sociology was preoccupied with
the modern social transformation conditions
and methodologies.
Katz & Sugrue, The Philadelphia Negro This book not only
assesses Du Bois' position
as a sociologist but also re-evaluates the
influence of his groundbreaking research on
representations of the Black-American
perspective.
Broderick , German Influence on Scholarship
of DuBois
This journal describes W.E.B Dubois's journey
of transformation from being a historian to
becoming a sociologist. It also explains his
journey as a student at Harvard.
Rabaka’s Dubois's Africana philosophy of
education
The objective of this article is an overview of
the sociological thoughts of Dubois, for his
main inputs to the education theory of
contemporary Africans. To explore Du Bois '
educational theory accurately, the article
describes some of the forms in which his
educational ideas and methods are entirely
distinct and practically nonsensical without
careful analysis of his principles of civilization,
economic thinking, philosophy of history, and
political and social philosophy.

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