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William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Dubois, cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909, continued throughout his life, into his nineties, to inform, sensitize, and challenge society about issues of race. Among his many important writings were The Gift of Black Folk (1935), written when he was sixty-seven, and Color and Democracy (1945), written when he was seventy-seven.

Cohen, G. D. (2000). The creative age: Awakening human potential in the second half of life. New York: Avon Books.