[Letter] August 16, 1928, Editorial rooms of The Crisis, N.A.A.C.P., 69 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. [to] Rev. William P. Schell, Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. of America, New York, N.Y. / W.E.B. DuBois

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[Letter] August 16, 1928, Editorial rooms of The Crisis, N.A.A.C.P., 69 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. [to] Rev. William P. Schell, Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. of America, New York, N.Y. / W.E.B. DuBois

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Inquiring (for The Crisis magazine) into the policy of the church on sending Afro-Americans to Africa as missionaries, and for certain relevant statistics.

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Schell, William Peter, 1878-1968

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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...