This is a Statue of W.E.B DuBois that is located at Fisk University in Tennessee. Fisk University is where DuBois did his undergraduate studies. DuBois's time at Fisk was a very important period in his life and was when he truly realized the high level of prejudice in the United States. DuBois was born in the North and was really subjected to the type of hatred and prejudice that was present in the South during that time. Therefore, while at Fisk he began to expand his understanding of the true state of prejudice in the US and began to preach his vision of change through the "talented tenth". He believed in the educated elite leading African Americans in changing the oppressed system in which they currently lived in. He was one of the important figure during the 1900's that lead to great change for African Americna in the United States.