A short preview of the California Newsreel documentary W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices, in which four Black writers narrate the life of Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963). Born three years after the Civil War and active until his death on the eve of the 1963 March on Washington, Du Bois was a sociologist, historian, and co-founder of the NAACP whose work — from The Souls of Black Folk to a lifetime of Pan-African organizing — shaped a century of African American thought and struggle. This clip is an introduction to the full film, not the complete documentary. For the readers of Black Boys In Crisis, Du Bois’s life is a model of scholarship, protest, and lifelong commitment to Black freedom.