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About W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. He completed graduate work at Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. He was a professor at Atlanta University and over the course of his life wrote many books and articles. He spent the last years of his life in Ghana and died in Accra on August 27, 1963.
Everything about W. E. B. Du Bois →- Occupation
- historian, novelist, philosopher, writer
- Position held
- civil rights advocate
- Citizenship
- United States, Ghana
- Born
- February 23, 1868, 1868
- Died
- August 27, 1963