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In the decade and a half between the completion of his Harvard Ph.D. (1895) and his founding of The Crisis for the NAACP (1910), African American historian and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois laid the empirical foundations for modern sociology and the revisionist interpretation of history. Despite his prodigious academic efforts, he eventually lost faith in the ability of scholarship to help African Americans and he left academe for the NAACP and the world of advocacy.
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Formwalt, L.W. W.E.B. Du Bois in Turn-of-the-Century Atlanta, 1897–1910. Soc 50, 180–189 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-013-9637-1
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