W.e.b. Du Bois Born February 23, 1869 (Great Barrington, Massachusetts)Died August 27, 1963 (Accra, Ghana) Civil rights activist, educator, writer W.E.B. Du Bois was the most celebrated African American leader of the firsthalf of the twentieth century....

Born February 23, 1868 Great Barrington, Massachusetts Died August 27, 1963 Accra, Ghana Sociologist, civil rights activist, writer, and editor W. E. B. Du Bois....

(born February 23, 1868, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 27, 1963, Accra, Ghana) American sociologist, the most important black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. He shared in the...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois is remembered as one of twentieth-century America's foremost black leaders, intellectuals, and spokesmen. Multi-talented, in a long life he wrote as a sociologist, historian, poet, short story writer, novelist,...

(b. February 23, 1868; d. August 27, 1963) American writer, sociologist, and civil rights leader. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His mother worked as a maid for local white families, despite being...