"Votes for Women"

Editorial

By: W.E.B. Du Bois

Date: September 1912

Source: Du Bois, W.E.B. "Votes for Women." The Crisis, September 1912, 234. Available online at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/webdbtw/doc12.htm; website home page: http://www.womhist.binghamton.edu (accessed January 18, 2003).

About the Author: William Edward Burghart Du Bois (1868–1963) was an historian, sociologist, writer, and civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, he was educated at Fisk University (1885–1888) and received a master's degree and a doctorate from Harvard (1888–1896). Du Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in history from Harvard. In 1910, he resigned as professor of history and economics at Atlanta University to accept a position with the National...

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