| 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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