W. E. B. Du Bois
23 February 1868 – 27 August 1963
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist who was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University. A founding member of the NAACP, he was a leading intellectual advocate for Black civil rights and Pan-Africanism, and authored influential works including The Souls of Black Folk. He spent his final years in Ghana, where he died in 1963.
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Life events
Born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois in western Massachusetts.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBecame the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgReleased his influential collection of essays on race in America.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHelped establish the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgFounded and edited the NAACP's influential magazine The Crisis.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHelped lead a series of Pan-African Congresses advocating African independence.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMoved to Ghana at the invitation of President Kwame Nkrumah and became a citizen.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied in Ghana at the age of 95, one day before the March on Washington.
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