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W.E.B. DUBOIS

 

Du Bois graduated from Fisk University, a historically Black institution in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1888. In 1895, DuBois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard with his dissertation, "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the United States of America: 1638-1871."

 

 In 1909, Du Bois co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and served as editor of its monthly magazine, The Crisis.

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Du Bois and Albert Einstein were pen pals.

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Du Bois was 95 when he died in Accra, Ghana, on August 27, 1963.

 

(https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-E-B-Du-Bois)

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