Q 01/05

Which Nobel-winning physicist offered to be a character witness for W. E. B. Du Bois at his 1951 federal trial?

A) Niels Bohr

B) Albert Einstein

C) Enrico Fermi

D) Ernest Lawrence

Answer · why

B) Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein never took the stand: the judge dismissed the case before the defense needed to call him. Du Bois told the story of the trial in his m...

Q 02/05

In which West African country did W. E. B. Du Bois settle at age 93 and later become a citizen?

A) Ghana

B) Liberia

C) Nigeria

D) Senegal

Answer · why

A) Ghana

Ghana gave Du Bois a state funeral when he died there in 1963, aged 95. He had taken its citizenship that year, after the United States refused to ren...

Q 03/05

Which Tuskegee educator's bargain of accepting segregation for jobs did W. E. B. Du Bois famously oppose?

A) Frederick Douglass

B) George Washington Carver

C) Booker T. Washington

D) Robert Russa Moton

Answer · why

C) Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington struck the deal with white Southern leaders in 1895, and Du Bois at first sent him congratulations. He later argued that Black Am...

Q 04/05

Which monthly NAACP magazine did W. E. B. Du Bois name, launch in 1910 and edit for more than two decades?

A) The Messenger

B) Opportunity

C) Negro World

D) The Crisis

Answer · why

D) The Crisis

The Crisis reached a circulation of 100,000 in 1920. Du Bois filled it with editorials against lynching, and once printed a year-by-year tabulation of...

Q 05/05

W. E. B. Du Bois was the first African American to earn a doctorate from which university, after studying in Germany?

A) Harvard

B) Yale

C) Columbia

D) Cornell

Answer · why

A) Harvard

Harvard had already made him earn a second bachelor's degree, because it would not accept the credits from his first college. He paid his way with sum...