W.E.B. Du Bois: The Activist Life (pg. 12)

Fifteen times I have crossed the Atlantic and once the Pacific. I have seen the world. But never so vast and glorious a miracle as China.

--W.E.B. Du Bois

If Du Bois was a prophet without honor in his own country, he was hailed as a visionary by non-western nations. He was warmly received in visits to the Peoples' Republic of China and the Soviet Union and was a guest in the newly independent states of Africa. Du Bois also devoted his time to writing and speaking, producing an enormous amount of articles, speeches and a trilogy of novels which he titled The Black Flame.

Du Bois addressing the first Afro-Asian Writers' Conference, Tashkent, U.S.S.R., October, 1958.

Du Bois in the garden of Paul Robeson's home in London, Fall 1958.

Premier Nikita Khrushchev greets Du Bois on a trip to the Soviet Union in 1958.

Du Bois with Chairman Mao Tse Tung, 1959.

The Peoples' Republic of China honored Du Bois on his 91st birthday in Peking.
Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois in front of guest house, Cheng-Du, China, April 1959

Three pioneers in Afro-American education: Du Bois with Mary McLeod Bethune and Horace Mann Bond.

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