| W. E. B. Du Bois AKA William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Born: 23-Feb-1868 Birthplace: Great Barrington, MA Died: 27-Aug-1963 Location of death: Accra, Ghana Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Activist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Civil rights activist Received first Ph.D. (history) awarded to a black man from Harvard University. Father: Alfred Du Bois Mother: Mary Burghardt Wife: Nina Gomer (m. 1895, d. 1950) Son: Burghardt (d. at one year of age) Daughter: Yolande (m. Countee Cullen) Wife: Shirley Graham (m. 1951)
High School: Great Barrington High School, Barrington, MA (1884) University: Fisk University, Nashville, TN (1888) University: BA, Harvard University (1890, cum laude) University: PhD, Harvard University (1896) University: MA, Harvard University (1891)
NAACP Communist Party Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Phi Beta Kappa Society Spingarn Medal 1920 Stalin Peace Prize 1958 Tonsillectomy (1931) Renounced US Citizenship 1963
Author of books:
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (1903, essays) Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (1921) The Gift of black folk: Negroes in the Making of America (1924, nonfiction) Dark Princess (1928) Dusk of Dawn (1940) Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (1945, nonfiction)
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