W.E.B.+DuBois

I was born on the 23 February 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. My full name is William Edward Burghardt DuBois. I was very gifted in education and did well in high school. I get a full scholarship to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. I receive a B.A there and then go to Harvard as a junior. I went on to recieve a B.A there as well and bgin gradute school. As a student it was aa dream to study in Europe. That came true when I went to study at the University of Berlin in Germany. Later on at Harvard I would receive my Ph.D.
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After my educations I started to teach a varius universitys. I also published many books and essays. One of my biggest works was on the civil rights though. I helped founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). I called on the Talented Tenth, the top ten percent of educated black people, to come and led the black people to civil rights. Later I became a ciziten of Ghana in 1963 and died there on August 27th ,1963. || 1. The Civil Rights Movement 2. Pan-Africanism 3. Race Relations 4. Talented Tenth 5. Education || **Timeline of My Life:** // o. // || Created the NAACP or the National Association for the advancement of colored people -This was created to work on the rights of African Americans. He participated in MANY anti-racism protests in local cities and towns He also wrote a book named The souls of black folk ||
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 * // 1880-1884 // || // Attends Great Barrington High School; Western Massachusetts Correspondent for the New York Age, the New York Globeand the Springfield Republican; graduates as class valedictorian. // ||
 * // 1885-1888 // || // Attends Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee; teaches in rural school districts during the summers; editor of the Fisk Herald; receives B.A. in 1888. // ||
 * // 1888-1890 // || // Enters Harvard as a junior and receives B.A., graduating cum laude. // ||
 * // 1890-1892 // || // Begins graduate study at Harvard. // ||
 * // 1892-1894 // || // Studies at the University of Berlin with a fellowship from the Slater Fund. // ||
 * // 1894-1896 // || // Teaches Latin and Greek at Wilberforce University in Ohio; marries Nina Gomer. // ||
 * // 1896 // || // Receives Ph.D. from Harvard; his dissertation “The Suppression of the African Slave Trade” is published by Harvard University Press. // ||
 * // 1896-1897 // || // Instructor of Sociology, the University of Pennsylvania; publishes The Philadelphia Negr //
 * // 1897-1910 // || // Teaches history and economics, Atlanta University; initiates the Atlanta University Studies. // ||
 * // 1903 // || // Publishes The Souls of Black Folk. // ||
 * // 1905-1909 // || // Founder and General Secretary of The Niagara Movement. // ||
 * // 1910-1934 // || // Director of Publicity and Research, Member Board of Directors, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. // ||
 * // 1910-1934 // || // Founder and Editor of The Crisis, monthly magazine of the NAACP. // ||
 * // 1919 // || // Calls Pan-African Congress in Paris. // ||
 * // 1920 // || // Receives the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. // ||
 * // 1923 // || // Special Ambassador Representing the United States at the inauguration of President King of Liberia. // ||
 * // 1934 // || // Resigns from the NAACP. // ||
 * // 1934-1944 // || // Returns to Atlanta University as Head, Department of Sociology; publishes Black Reconstruction. // ||
 * // 1944-48 // || // Returns to NAACP as Director of Publicity and Research. // ||
 * // 1945 // || // Attends founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco as representative of the NAACP. // ||
 * // 1948 // || // Co-chairman, Council on African Affairs. // ||
 * // 1950 // || // Chairman, Peace Information Center in New York City; candidate for U.S. Senate for New York Progressive Party. Wife, Nina Gomer Du Bois, dies and is buried in Great Barrington. // ||
 * // 1951 // || // Indictment, trial, and acquittal of subversive activities charges brought against him by the Justice Department; marries Shirley Graham. // ||
 * // 1951-1959 // || // Extensive speaking, writing, and international travel; wins Lenin Peace Prize in 1958. // ||
 * // 1961 // || // Becomes member of the Communist Party, U.S.A. Invited to Ghana by President Kwame Nkrumah to edit the Encyclopedia Africana. // ||
 * // 1963 // || // Becomes citizen of Ghana. Dies on August 27th and is buried with a state funeral in Accra. Du Bois’s death is announced by Roy Wilkins of the NAACP as the March on Washington begins on August 28th. ​// ||
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