LECTURE ON NEGRO PROBLEM

Professor W. E. B. DuBois '90, of Atlanta. Georgia, will speak in the Union at 7.30 o'clock this evening on the negro problem, his subject being, "The Transplanting of a Race, 1442-1860."

Professor DuBois received an A.M. at Harvard in 1891 and was then for two years the holder of the Henry Bromfield Rogers Memorial Fellowship in history and economics, attracting the attention of his professors, especially that of the late Professor Dunbar, by his remarkable work. During the next two years he studied abroad on a special fellowship established for his benefit by the Slater Fund, and while at the University of Berlin was the favorite student of Professor Schnoller, the great sociologist. In 1895 he returned here to take his doctor's degree in political science. He became professor at Wilberforce University, Ohio, and was soon after appointed by the University of Pennsylvania a special investigator in sociology. Later he was called to Atlanta University as professor of history and economics. Mr. Booker Washington has recently offered him a position of influence in Tuskegee University similar to that held by R. C. Bruce '02.

Professor DuBois is undoubtedly the most thoroughly trained and highly educated member of his race in America, and has already made himself an authority on several historical and sociological questions. His doctor's thesis, a monograph on slave trade, was printed as one of the "Harvard Historical Studies." He has written on the condition of the negro in Philadelphia, and in Georgia and other parts of the South. His main literary work. "The Souls of Black Folk," is one of the most striking books that has been written recently by any Harvard graduate, and marks him as one of the intellectual leaders of his race.

The lecture will be open to members of the Union.