W.E.B. Du Bois

W .E .B . Du Bois : The Life and Times of One of the Talented Tenth

Born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois on the 23rd of February in 1868 W .E .B Du Bois would prove to be one the most important figures in the African-American search for equality and acceptance . His humble beginnings in Great Barrington , Massachusetts belied little of the greatness he would achieve later on life . Educated at Fisk University in Tennessee , Harvard University , and the University of Berlin , Du Bois proved great intellectual prowess not only through gaining his PhD

but also through definitive works such as Black Reconstruction in America The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America , The Souls of the Black Folk , and The Autobiography of W .E Burghardt Du Bois . Believing that the fight for African-American civil rights was to be an endeavor that should be fought by both Blacks and Whites , he helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP . Du Bois ' fight for equality and for social justice would take his activism far beyond just the emancipation of the African-Americans his later years would eventually lead him to support the emancipation of the proletariat and into Left-wing ideology . W .E .B Du Bois died in Ghana , where he was a naturalized citizen , on the 27th of August , 1968 (Hynes

The Times of W .E .B . Du Bois

American Civil War : April . 12 1861 - April 9 , 1865

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