May 4, 2007
Oxford U. Press Publishes Collected Works of W.E.B. Du Bois
DU BOIS FOR TODAY: Only 111 years ago, Harvard University published a doctoral thesis called The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 as the first volume in its Historical Monograph Series.
The author was W.E.B. Du Bois, who was also the first black man to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. That publication commenced a literary career that spanned 72 years, extending past Du Bois's death in 1963 to include the posthumous publication of his
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