However, receiving an
integrated college education was not so simple. Instead he
headed South to Fisk University to further his education, There,
the daily insults of discrimination and segregation came to him
as a shock. He had not been trained to accept them, and these
daily harassments filled him with anger and hostility. He
returned north to pursue his graduate education at Harvard
University, and he also spent some time at the University of
Berlin exploring the new field of sociology.
DuBois's first-class education as well as his own scholarly bent
led him to put considerable faith in reason and learning as the
tools with which to rebuild the world. He came to believe that
bigotry and discrimination were rooted in ignorance and that
scholarship could destroy them by exposing them to the light of
truth. He strove to demonstrate that the Afro-American was not
innately inferior and that his inferior status sprang from his
unequal and unfair treatment in America.
While at Harvard, he wrote "The Suppression of the African
Slave Trade" which was of such high quality that it became the
first volume in an important historical series published by
Harvard.
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