DUBOIS, W. E. B.

(1868-1963)

   William Edward Burghardt DuBois, born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, is best known as an African American activist and cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909). However, he loved the theatre and encouraged African American playwrights in the pages of his journal The Crisis, which held contests, and on the stage of the KRIGWA players. DuBois also wrote Star of Ethiopia (1913), a pageant of African American history that was produced in several cities in the 1910s and 1920s.