W.E.B. Du Bois: The Man Within
W. E. B. Du Bois was born on Church Street on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington at the south-western edge of Massachusetts, to Alfred Du Bois and Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois, whose February 5, 1867 wedding had been announced in the Berkshire Courier. A man that would be greatly admired in his later years by many of his peers for his big steps he took for the African American civil rights. After graduating from Great Barrington High School he went to the University of Berlin finding out that he had a great passion in African American history he went to the University of Harvard to broaden he knowledge on the history of African Americans.
In 1895 William Dubois became the first African American to be given a PhD from the University of Harvard. After his PhD he started teaching economics and history at the University Of Atlanta and in the early 1900’s he published his first ground breaking book The Souls of Black Folks. Which the book contained attacks on Booker T......
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