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====== DuBoisopedia ======

<html><div style="float:right; padding-left:20px; padding-bottom:15px; padding-right:20px"><a href="http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/images/MS0312-0408.jpg"><img src="http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/images/MS0312-0408.jpg" alt="W.E.B. Du Bois" style="width:270px; border:1px solid #333;" /></a></div></html>

Pioneering sociologist, historian, novelist, playwright, and cultural critic, W. E. B. Du Bois committed his life to a relentless opposition to racial and social injustice. Without ever seeking a mass following, he was a peerless organizer who helped to found both the Niagara Movement and the NAACP, and who fostered several Pan African Congresses. For years, he was editor of //The Crisis// and other progressive journals, and was an international spokesperson for peace and the rights of oppressed minorities. 

As a comprehensive online encyclopedia, //DuBoisopedia//, seeks to capture the details, both large and small, that together made up Du Bois's life and times. With the use of wiki technology, //DuBoisopedia// was created as a collaborative project that offers a forum to students and researchers who wish to share knowledge acquired either from their interactions with the [[http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/dubois/|Du Bois Papers]], held at the Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at UMass Amherst, or from their interactions with the published writings of Du Bois and Du Bois criticism.

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