“Du Bois fit that intersection between academia and public action, and the people who use the collection often do the same,” Cox said.
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard Univesity’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research who edited a compilation of Du Bois’ writings, said much of Du Bois’ never published works and early drafts are hard to find.
“It’s long been obvious to me that no printed editions of his work have even begun to touch the complexity and the vast extent of his writings,” Gates said. “Digitizing these works will lead to a renaissance in scholarship about the greatest thinker of African descent in history.”
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