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In 1950, Du Bois ran for the New York State Senate on the American Labor Party ticket, and lost. Eight years later, he joined Trotskyists, ex-Communists, and independent radicals in proposing the creation of a new "popular front" coalition to challenge for seats in the New York State elections.

In 1950, Du Bois ran for the New York State Senate on the American Labor Party ticket, and lost. Eight years later, he joined Trotskyists, ex-Communists, and independent radicals in proposing the creation of a new "popular front" coalition to challenge for seats in the New York State elections.

Du Bois went back to China during Mao's “Great Leap Forward,” denied the concomitant famine (which claimed more than seven million victims), and defended the brutal Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolt of 1956. In 1961 he joined the Communist Party USA and emigrated to Ghana to live in dictator Kwame Nkrumah's socialist police state.

Du Bois went back to China during Mao's “Great Leap Forward,” denied the concomitant famine (which claimed more than seven million victims), and defended the brutal Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolt of 1956. In 1961 he joined the Communist Party, stating:

{{cquote|Capitalism cannot reform itself. Communism -- the effort to give all ... what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute -- this is the only way of human life.<ref>[http://www.cpusa.org/african-american-communist-w-e-b-du-bois-1868-1963-/ African American Communist: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)], Communist Party USA</ref>}}

Du Bois made Herbert Aptheker, the chief theoretician of the American Communist Party, the executor of his papers. DuBois died in Ghana in 1963, at age 95.

Du Bois emigrated to Ghana to live in dictator Kwame Nkrumah's socialist police state. As executor of his papers, he named Herbert Aptheker, chief theoretician of the American Communist Party.

In 1963 the Communist Party named its new youth group (a successor to the Young Communist League) the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs.

DuBois died in Ghana in 1963, at age 95. In 1963 the Communist Party named its new youth group (a successor to the Young Communist League) the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs.

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