Editing W. E. B. Du Bois (section)

==Honors and legacy==

[[File:W.E.B. DuBois Mary White Ovington.jpg|thumb|alt=A large bronze bas-relief sculpture embedded in a sidewalk|right|W. E. B. Du Bois, with [[Mary White Ovington]], was honored with a medallion in The Extra Mile.]]

* The [[NAACP]] awarded the [[Spingarn Medal]] to Du Bois in 1920.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2009|p=398}}</ref>
* In 1958, Du Bois was inducted into the [[Fisk University]] chapter of [[Phi Beta Kappa]] when he returned to campus to receive an honorary degree.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-i0515|title=W. E. B. Du Bois and members of Phi Beta Kappa, Fisk University, 1958, 1958|website=credo.library.umass.edu|access-date=April 9, 2019}}</ref>
* In 1959, Du Bois was awarded the International [[Lenin Peace Prize]] by the [[Soviet Union|USSR]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2009|p=3}}.</ref>
* In 1975, the [[W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute|W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research]], later part of the [[Hutchins Center for African and African American Research]], was established at [[Harvard University]].
* [[W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite|The site of the house where Du Bois grew up]] in [[Great Barrington, Massachusetts]], was designated a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1976.<ref>Savage, Beth, (1994), ''African American Historic Places'', John Wiley and Sons, p. 277.</ref>
* In 1992, the [[United States Postal Service]] honored Du Bois with his portrait on a [[postage stamp]].<ref>Sama, Dominic, [https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/02/02/new-us-issue-honors-web-du-bois/ "New U.S. Issue Honors W. E. B. Du Bois"], ''Chicago Tribune'', February 2, 1992. Retrieved November 20, 2011.</ref> A second stamp of face value 32¢ was issued on February 3, 1998, as part of the [[Celebrate the Century]] stamp sheet series.
* In 1994, [[W. E. B. Du Bois Library|the main library]] at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] was named for Du Bois. He transferred his papers to the university via his literary executor, historian [[Herbert Aptheker]].<ref>Han, John J. (2007), "W. E. B. Du Bois", in ''Encyclopedia of American Race Riots'', Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 181.</ref>
* In 2000, Harvard's [[Hutchins Center for African & African American Research]] began awarding the [[W. E. B. Du Bois Medal]], which is considered Harvard's highest honor in the field of [[African and African American studies]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/w-e-b-du-bois-medal-recipients|title=W. E. B. Du Bois Medal Recipients. The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research|website=hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu|access-date= October 28, 2018}}</ref>
* A dormitory was named for Du Bois at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], where he conducted field research for his sociological study ''[[The Philadelphia Negro]]''.<ref>[http://dubois.house.upenn.edu/house_history.html "The History of W. E. B. Du Bois College House"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119024637/http://dubois.house.upenn.edu/house_history.html|date= January 19, 2012}}, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved November 20, 2011.</ref>
* A dormitory is named for Du Bois at [[Hampton University]].
* ''[[Encyclopedia Africana|Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience]]'' was inspired by and dedicated to Du Bois by its editors [[Kwame Anthony Appiah]] and [[Henry Louis Gates Jr.]]<ref>Bloom, Harold (2001), ''W. E. B. Du Bois'', Infobase Publishing, p. 244.</ref>
* The [[Humboldt University of Berlin]] hosts a series of lectures named in his honor.<ref>[http://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/confslecs/dboislecs "W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140216090200/http://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/confslecs/dboislecs |date=February 16, 2014 }}, Humboldt University. Retrieved November 20, 2011.</ref>
* Scholar [[Molefi Kete Asante]] listed Du Bois in his 2002 list of the ''[[100 Greatest African Americans]]''.<ref>Asante, Molefi Kete (2002), ''100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia'', Prometheus Books, pp. 114–116.</ref>
* In 2005, Du Bois was honored with a medallion in [[The Extra Mile]], Washington DC's memorial to important American volunteers.<ref>"Noteworthy", ''The Crisis'', November/December 2005, p. 64.</ref>
* The highest career award given by the [[American Sociological Association]], the [[W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award]], was renamed for Du Bois in 2006.
* Du Bois was appointed Honorary Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012.<ref>[http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v58/n21/dubois.html "Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: Honorary Emeritus Professorship of Sociology and Africana Studies"], ''The University of Pennsylvania Almanac'', Volume 58, No. 21, February 7, 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.thedp.com/article/2012/02/w.e.b._du_bois_receives_honorary_emeritus_professorship "W. E. B. Du Bois receives honorary emeritus professorship"], ''The Daily Pennsylvanian'', February 19, 2012.</ref>
* A bust was commissioned from Ayokunle Odeleye to honor Du Bois, and dedicated on the Clark Atlanta University on the anniversary of his birth, February 23, 2013 ''(pictured right)''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Du Bois Art Projects|url=http://cauduboislegacy.net/Du_Bois_Art_Projects_2.html|website=CAUDuBoisLegacy.net|publisher=Clark Atlanta University|access-date=May 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020012335/http://cauduboislegacy.net/Du_Bois_Art_Projects_2.html|archive-date= October 20, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*In 2015, the [[Du Bois Orchestra]] at Harvard was founded.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Education Outreach Through Music|url=https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/17/11/education-outreach-through-music|access-date= March 3, 2021|website=Harvard Graduate School of Education|date=November 20, 2017 }}</ref>
* In March 2018, Du Bois was awarded ''Grand Prix de la Mémoire'' for the [[Grand Prix of Literary Associations]] 2017.<ref>Tientcheu, Marchelo (March 29, 2018), [https://www.lebledparle.com/culture/1104339-cameroun-litterature-web-du-bois-grand-prix-de-la-memoire-aux-gpal-2017 "Cameroun/Littérature: WEB du Bois, Grand Prix de la Mémoire aux GPAL 2017"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217014733/https://www.lebledparle.com/culture/1104339-cameroun-litterature-web-du-bois-grand-prix-de-la-memoire-aux-gpal-2017 |date=December 17, 2018 }}, Lebledparle.com.</ref>
* Du Bois was featured as a character in the 2020 [[Netflix]] miniseries ''[[Self Made (miniseries)|Self Made]]'', portrayed by [[Cornelius Smith Jr.]]
* In 2023 the government of Ghana signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the [https://www.webdbmf.org/ W.E.B Du Bois Museum Foundation] to develop, rebrand, operate and manage the [[W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture]] into a major new educational complex to preserve and continue Du Bois' legacy.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.webdbmf.org/mou.html | title=WEBDBMF :: MoU Signing New York - USA }}</ref> In 2024, the [[Mellon Foundation]] announced a US$5 million grant to provide leadership funds for four years in Phase 1 of the new complex's development.<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/web-du-bois-museum-foundation-awarded-5m-grant-by-mellon-foundation-302060351.html | title=W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation Awarded $5m Grant by Mellon Foundation }}</ref>
* The W. E. B. Du Bois Center at the [[University of Virginia]] is named for him.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 18, 2024 |title=University of Virginia |url=https://oaaa.virginia.edu/w-e-b-du-bois-center |access-date=August 18, 2024}}</ref>