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Article: THE LION IN WINTER.(civil rights worker W.E.B. Du Bois)
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- Cobblestone
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- February 1, 2000
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Ten years after he resigned from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), W.E.B. Du Bois came back to the organization. His shoulders were stooped and his beard white, but he refused to slow down. At seventy-six, he attended conferences, wrote papers, and fought fiercely for his beliefs. Du Bois, however, was a lion whose roar was too loud for more timid ears.
After four years of quarrels over its policies, the NAACP fired Du Bois. A year later, on July 1, 1950, his wife of fifty-four years died. These setbacks might have finished other men, but Du Bois turned them into a remarkable final chapter of his life.
When Du Bois ...