Dubois’s most lasting impacts are all the novels and essays he wrote, his impact on discrimination today, and the NAACP. DuBois wrote many novels and essays, which have received many awards, such as “The Souls of Black Folk”. The impact on society that these have had, is they have given researchers insight on how ruthless people were back then, and on how horrible discrimination is. Then, there’s his overall impact on discrimination and segregation today. Thanks to him, both problems have almost disappeared, but there are some states that still do segregation, and discrimination is still in some parts also. For example, "as of July 2011, 13.9 Americans were unemployed. 6.3 million of them were unemployed over 27 weeks. While 8.3 percent of whites are unemployed, compare that to 15.9 percent of African Americans." This was posted as an article of the Red Room, and, yes, DuBois didn’t completely destroy discrimination and segregation like he wanted, but it almost did, which is good enough. Furthermore, there's the NAACP. The organization has greatly expanded since DuBois founded it, and, they recently rolled back the discriminatory felony disenfranchisement laws in Delaware and Virginia. All in all, DuBois did some extraordinary things to contribute to his lasting impact.
(Courtesy of West Harlem (shown above), and courtesy of the Official NAACP website (bottom), which shows the NAACP today)