Having spent the last decade researching and writing about Du Bois’s life and legacy, I’ve had the opportunity to work extensively in all of the aforementioned collections. Du Bois Centre in Ghana, archive aspects of his life as well. Du Bois Homesite in his hometown of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, along with the W. Equally revealing are the collections of Du Bois scholars David Levering Lewis and Gerald Horne as well as documentarian Louis Massiah.
The papers of those closest to Du Bois, for example his lawyer Bernard Jaffe, his second wife Shirley Graham Du Bois, and his literary executor and comrade Herbert Aptheker, also hold dimensions of his life history. Yale University, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and a host of other institutions house smaller collections of Du Bois materials. Most of Du Bois’s papers reside at UMass Amherst (in physical and digitized formats) and Fisk University.
1930s photo credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
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