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- NAME: W.E.B. Du Bois
- OCCUPATION: Educator, Civil Rights Activist, Journalist
- BIRTH DATE: February 23, 1868
- DEATH DATE: August 27, 1963
- EDUCATION: Fisk University, University of Berlin, Harvard University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Great Barrington, Massachusetts
- PLACE OF DEATH: Accra, Ghana
- Full Name: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
- AKA: W.E.B. Du Bois
- AKA: William Du Bois
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W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most important African-American activists during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the NAACP and supported Pan-Africanism.
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W.E.B. Du Bois - Mini Biography
In 1895, W.E.B. Du Bois became the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard. He fought for African American rights and cofounded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
W.E.B. DuBois - Rivalry with Booker T. Washington
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, discusses the conflict between W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington over how to advance the African-American race.
W.E.B. DuBois - Civil Rights Pioneer
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, discusses the life and impact of civil rights pioneer W.E.B. DuBois.
W.E.B. Du Bois - The Niagara Movement
W.E.B. Du Bois and other activists started the Niagara Movement to end racial segregation and to lead the charge against Jim Crow laws.
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Play NowW.E.B. Du Bois. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 11:37, May 23, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/web-du-bois-9279924.
W.E.B. Du Bois. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/web-du-bois-9279924 [Accessed 23 May 2013].
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"W.E.B. Du Bois," The Biography Channel website, http://www.biography.com/people/web-du-bois-9279924 (accessed May 23, 2013).
W.E.B. Du Bois [Internet]. The Biography Channel website; 2013 [cited 2013 May 23] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/web-du-bois-9279924.
W.E.B. Du Bois, http://www.biography.com/people/web-du-bois-9279924 (last visited May 23, 2013).
W.E.B. Du Bois. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/web-du-bois-9279924. Accessed May 23, 2013.
W.E.B. Du Bois died on August 27, 1963, at the age of 95, in Accra, Ghana, while working on an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora.
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