W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee Yesterday I shared a brief passage from W.E.B. DuBois on Confederate monuments. Below is an short essay from DuBois on Robert E. Lees legacy published in 1928. Source: The Crisis, March 1928, v.35, n.3 Robert E. Lee Each year on the 19th of January there is renewed effort to canonize Robert E.