All 99,665 items in the Du Bois Papers held at U Mass Amherst have been digitized. Incredible. https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/collection/mums312?fbclid=IwAR2edMpU19CtDHtvUo6TSumwcnWrbPIAcyCB2lVfhIsYB8qgNfNKw1Y7PDQ
Also I just want to note that the archivists did a really great job with this. The finding aid has links to the search page so you can search or browse within each series and every item has a one sentence description. Plus you can download PDF's easily.
Another unrelated but cool Du Bois related thing: Atlanta University theses are all online going back to the 1930s, including a number supervised by Du Bois. https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/cau.td%3A9999?sort=auc_date_sort_ss%20asc&islandora_solr_search_navigation=0
Du Bois relied on Ethel Maude Christler's thesis for a lot of the GA chapter of Black Reconstruction. It seems like he took a copy of her thesis out from the library and never brought it back. https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/cau.td%3A1932_christler_ethel_m
Du Bois asks Herbert Aptheker for follow up reading after reading Lenin's Imperialism, plus Aptheker's response.
Du Bois asks Herbert Aptheker for follow up reading after reading Lenin's Imperialism, plus Aptheker's response.
Du Bois asks Herbert Aptheker for follow up reading after reading Lenin's Imperialism, plus Aptheker's response.
Kind of surprised Du Bois hadn't read Imperialism before 1954
The publisher asks when then Black Reconstruction manuscript will be ready, Du Bois replies and delays.
The publisher asks when then Black Reconstruction manuscript will be ready, Du Bois replies and delays.
The publisher asks when then Black Reconstruction manuscript will be ready, Du Bois replies and delays.
The publisher asks when then Black Reconstruction manuscript will be ready, Du Bois replies and delays.
The publisher asks when then Black Reconstruction manuscript will be ready, Du Bois replies and delays.
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