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Dubois was a lot of things he was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.

In 1894 DuBois pursued graduate studies in history and economics at the University of Berlin on a Slater Fund FellowshipAnd went on to serve two years as a professor of Greek and Latin at Wilberforce University in Ohio

Dubois got his Bachelor’s degree from Frisk University In 1888 in addition to that he spent the summer teaching in African American schools in Nashville’s rural areas.

During his youth he did some newspaper reporting

He and his mother were also the only black members at the First Congregational Church

AWARDS AND ACHIVEMENTS

Dubois lived in Great Barrington which comprised a population of approximately five thousand whites and about fifty blacks

He earned a Spingarn Medal from NAACP, 1932. He was also elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1943. Dubois earned a Lenin International Peace Prize in 1958 and the Knight Commander of the Liberian Humane Order of African Redemption conferred by the Liberian Government,

Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary conferred by President Coolidge he received his LL.D. from Harvard University in 1930 and ond from Atlanta University in 1938 Litt.D. from Fisk University in 1938; L.H.D. Wilberforce University, 1940; honorary degrees from Morgan State College, University of Berlin, and Charles University.

He started to identify himself as mulatto and also started to realize the deep troubles of racism

In 1884 he graduated as valedictorian in 1884 from a local grammar high school

In 1891 DuBois got his Master of Arts degree from Harvard

In 1895 DuBois got his Doctorate from Harvard

Dubois faced many struggles during his childhood, he was an only child

His parents separated and he remained with his mother until she died in 1884.

Also during the year of 1888 he entered Harvard University as a junior and was one of six commencement speakers.

Niagara Movement failed but it was a replica of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) which was founded in 1909DuBois became its director of research and the editor of its magazine called “THE CRISIS”

Dubois devoted most of his life studying the position of blacks in America from a sociological view and he was supported in his studies by his white teachers

In 1905 DuBois took the lead in founding the short-lived Niagara Movement which was intended to be an organization advocating civil rights for blacks.

As a child DuBois during adolescence he became aware of a vast veil which separated him from his white classmates

W.E.B Dubois was born in 1868 on February 23rd

In 1896 dubois got married to Shirley Graham Du Bois

and they had two children

He was born and raised in great barrington,Massachusetts

Du Bois was the voice of the black community for many young African Americans in the period from 1910 through the 1930s.

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