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The Emergence of African-American Sociology: DuBois, Frazier, Drake and Cayton
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The Dead Sociologists' Society
The Du Bois section of this website provides background on Du Bois the person, as well as a summary of his ideas and parts of his original texts, including The Souls of Black Folk and The Philadelphia Negro.
( http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/INDEX.HTML#dubois )
A Biographical Sketch of W.E.B. Du Bois
This is a somewhat lengthy biographical sketch of Du Bois. It provides insight into his life and intellectual work, as well as a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
( http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html )
Atlantic Monthly Article on Du Bois
This article, which appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1965, is based on one of the last interviews Du Bois gave.
( http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/black/mcgillbh.htm. )
The W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University
According to its mission statement, "The W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University is a series of pages detailing various aspects of Du Bois studies…[intended] to spur intelligent scholarship and discussion of his life, legacy, and works."
( http://members.tripod.com/~DuBois/ )
W.E.B. Du Bois: Sociologist, Author, Civil Rights Leader
This site provides a brief biography of Du Bois, an annotated bibliography of his major works, and links to where to find excerpts from his original works online.
( http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/dubois.html )
Works by W.E.B. Du Bois
This site provides links to several of the original texts of Du Bois's work, including The Souls of Black Folk, "The Talented Tenth," and "The Evolution of Negro Leadership."
( http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/dubois.html )
The Souls of Black Folk
This site provides access to the entire original text of Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. It is organized by chapter.
( http://www.bartleby.com/114/ )
W.E.B. Du Bois Webography
This site provides Web resources on Du Bois, including biographical information, original texts, and articles written about Du Bois.
( http://faculty.millikin.edu/~rbrooks.hum.faculty.mu/MApoetry/Duboissite.html )
E. Franklin Frazier
The Franklin page on the American Sociological Association's website provides biographical information.
( http://www.asanet.org/governance/frazier.html )
St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton
In this excerpt from his book When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996), William Julius Williams discusses the contributions of Drake and Cayton in Black Metropolis, their landmark study of the black community of Chicago.
( http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ii961228.html )
Black Metropolis
This webpage provides an analysis of the findings of Drake and Cayton in their masterpiece of social research, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City.
( http://www.poverty.smartlibrary.org/NewInterface/segment.cfm?segment=1903 )