Caption from poster__

 “ A little less complaint and whining,

 and a little more dogged work and

manly striving, would do us more

credit than a thousand civil rights bills.”

Du Bois was the most prominent intellectual leader and political activist on behalf of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Booker T. Washington, the two carried on a dialogue about segregation and political disenfranchisement. He was labeled "The Father of Pan-Africanism."