W.E.B Du Bois was an intellectual black activist and co-founder of the NAACP. Unlike Booker T. Washington, who believed African Americans can better the conditions in the South, Du Bois hypothesized that uneducated black had little chance of obtaining liberation on their own and its imperative to counter the stereotype views of African Americans that has spread globally. W.E.B Du Bois received his first bachelor’s degree at a university in Tennessee and began the first African American to acquire a doctorate degree at Harvard University. As co-founder of the NAACP, Du Bois wanted black Americans to fight for their citizenship, which was written in the Constitution. Determined to fight for the justice deserved to African Americans, Dubois established
