http://slideplayer.com/4319961/14/images/31/After+the+founding+of+the+NAACP+in+1910%2C+Du+Bois+served+as+the+association+s+director+of+publications+%281910-32%29+and+as+the+editor+of+The+Crisis%2C+the+official+organ+of+the+NAACP.+In+1926+he+visited+the+Soviet+Union+and+thereafter+became+increasingly+convinced+that+advancement+of+American+blacks+could+best+be+achieved+through+socialism.+In+1934%2C+having+left+the+NAACP%2C+Du+Bois+returned+to+teach+at+Atlanta+University%3B+he+also+served+%281940-44%29+as+editor+of+the+university+s+quarterly+Phylon.+In+1944+he+again+joined+the+staff+of+the+NAACP%2C+as+director+of+the+department+of+special+research%3B+he+remained+with+the+organization+until+1948.+Du+Bois%2C+increasingly+involved+in+the+promotion+of+world+peace+and+nuclear+disarmament%2C+became+chairman+of+the+Peace+Information+Center+in+New+York+City+in+1950%2C+but+the+next+year+the+organization+was+declared+subversive+by+the+U.S.+government.+During+the+1950s+he+traveled+extensively+in+Eastern+Europe.+Awarded+the+1959+Lenin+Peace+Prize%2C+Du+Bois+joined+the+Communist+party+in+1961+and+settled+in+Ghana+later+the+same+year.+Shortly+before+his+death+in+Accra%2C+on+August+27%2C+1963%2C+he+became+a+citizen+of+Ghana.+At+the+time+of+his+death+Du+Bois+was+engaged+in+editing+the+Encyclopedia+Africana..jpg