W.E.B. Du Bois died on this date in 1963. People know him as a towering figure -- historian, sociologist, activist. He was also a pioneering historian of Africa. I've assigned a chapter from his 1947 book The World and Africa in my South African history class. I'll tweet quotes. On the education to which children of European & American "laboring classes" are subjected: "...a false education which lauded the triumphs of the industrial undertaker, made the millionaire the hero of modem life, and taught youth that success was wealth."