his new wife moved to Georgia where Du Bois taught at Atlanta University for over a decade. They had two children together: a son named Burghardt Gomer, who died when he was two years old, and a daughter, NinaYolande. Between the years of 1897 and 1914 while Du Bois was a professor at Atlanta University he published sixteen research monographs analyzing the sociological conditions of African-Americans in America. He also published The Philadelphia Negro, a Sociological Study in 1899, the first case study done in the United States about an African-American community. Du Bois began focusing more on African-American life in 1899 after he witnessed the lynching of an African-American male. He wrote letters and petitions against discrimination in travel facilities and schools. In 1900, Du Bois went to the Paris Exposition and Pan-African Congress in London. Du Bois' most recognized work, The Souls of Black Folk, was published in 1903. He gained critical acclaim as well as national fame with that publication. In that same year "The Talented Tenth", an essay in the anthology The Negro Problem was published.
             Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter formed the Niagara Movement in 1905. The organization scattered in five years, and in 1909 Du Bois, with several other eminent African-American and Caucasian men and women, formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP). Du Bois became the Director of Publications and Research for the NAACP based in New York. For the next twenty-four years Du Bois was the editor of its journal, The Crisis.
             By the first ten years The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races was in circulation it had achieved a monthly gross of one hundred-thousand dollars. Needless to say it was a very influential journal in the Black community. Du Bois said in his editorials "...[it was] a critical time for the advancement of men" and that "...tolerance, reaso...