Du Bois gụrụ akwụkwọ na Mahadum Fisk, kọleji ndị isi ojii na Nashville, Tennessee, site na 1885 ruo 1888. Njem ya na ebe obibi ya na South bụ ahụmịhe mbụ Du Bois na ịkpa oke agbụrụ nke ndịda, nke n'oge ahụ gụnyere iwu Jim Crow, ịkpa oke agbụrụ, mkpochapụ nke ntuli aka ojii, na igbu ọchụ; nke ikpeazụ ruru elu ya n'afọ iri na-esote. Mgbe ọ natara akara ugo mmụta na Fisk, ọ gara Harvard College (nke anabataghị nzere mmụta site na Fisk) site na 1888 ruo 1890, ebe ọ bụ nnukwu onye prọfesọ ya William James, bụ onye ama ama na nkà ihe ọmụma America.
Gustav von Schmoller, Adolph Wagner, na Heinrich von Treitschke