W. E. B. Du Bois - Honors

Honors

• The NAACP awarded the Spingarn Medal to Du Bois in 1920.
• Du Bois was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize by the USSR in 1959.
• The site of the house where Du Bois grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
• In 1992 and again in 1998, the United States Postal Service honored Du Bois with his portrait on a postage stamp.
• In 1994, the main library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was named after Du Bois.
• The Du Bois center at Northern Arizona University is named in his honor.
• A dormitory was named after Du Bois at the University of Pennsylvania, where he conducted field research for his sociological study "The Philadelphia Negro".
• 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.
• Humboldt University in Berlin hosts a series of lectures named in Du Bois's honor.
• Scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Du Bois in his 2002 list of the 100 Greatest African Americans.
• In 2005, Du Bois was honored with a medallion in The Extra Mile, Washington DC's memorial to important American volunteers.
• Du Bois is honored with a feast day, August 3, on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church.