W.E.B. Du Bois on Black Progress in the Late 19th Century

This lesson uses the slow reveal technique to encourage students to examine graphs that W.E.B Du Bois created for the 1900 Paris Exposition. DuBois and his graduate students created dozens of innovative data visualizations for the Exposition. The lesson will help students consider the intentions of Du Bois as well as his creativity in communicating through novel forms of data visualizations.