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W. E. B. Du Bois

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W. E. B. Du Bois pioneered rigorous empirical sociology in the United States, using interviews and statistics to document a community's real conditions.

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*The Philadelphia Negro* (1899) drew on hundreds of interviews and produced evidence contradicting the racial explanations of his day.

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His work is data-driven fieldwork, not commentary — the evidence is the argument.