W. E. B. DuBois, the first person of African descent to earn a doctorate from Harvard, was a professor of history and sociology at Atlanta University and researcher on the conditions of blacks in America. His classic The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is often cited by African American intellectuals as the work that most influenced them. He was the first editor of Phylon, Atlanta University’s scholarly journal on race and culture. A founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), DuBois edited The Crisis for 23 years. A socialist and opponent of imperialism in Africa, DuBois was indicted by the U.S. Justice Department for refusing to register as a foreign agent. He expatriated to Ghana, where he died on the eve of the 1963 March on Washington. Dr. King noted “History cannot ignore W. E. B. DuBois because history has to reflect truth and Dr. DuBois was a tireless explorer and a gifted discoverer of social truths.”