The Du Bois House, 2302 Montebello Terrace

ID: 2399 ~ Date: 1945
This file appears in: The W.E.B. Du Bois House
The Du Bois House, 2302 Montebello Terrace
The W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
This file appears in: The W.E.B. Du Bois House

By Aimée Pohl
In 1939 sociologist, activist, author, and cofounder of the NAACP, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, had a house built at 2302 Montebello Terrace in the neighborhood of Morgan Park. Barred from many neighborhoods by Jim Crow laws and…