What contribution did W. E. B. Du Bois, Carter Woodson, and Melville Herskovitis?

Question

What did the three mentioned above contribute to the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement?

Answer 1

DuBois was one of the leading intellectuals of the early 20th century. He was a central figure in debates over the future of African Americans in the US.
http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html
http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/dubois.html

Carter Woodson is essentially the father of Black History. The first major African-American historian and founder of what became Black History Month.
http://www.chipublib.org/002branches/woodson/woodsonbib.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_G._Woodson

Herskovist was an anthropolgist and one of the central figures in developing Black Studies as an academic discipline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_J._Herskovits
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/fghij/herskovits_melville.html
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/WEBEXHIB/legacy/imgins3.htm