Shirley Graham DuBois

Source: Black Perspectives
9/1/2020

Surveillance, State Power, and the Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois

by Denise Lynn

The Black organizer Shirley Graham DuBois, along with her husband W.E.B. DuBois, faced intrusive and punitive action by the U.S. government for her antiracist activism. The government used anticommunism to justify its surveillance.