(1868–1963)

African American Activist, Scholar

A leading American intellectual and civil rights advocate, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868. After undergraduate study at all-black Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduate work at Harvard and the ...

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