W. E. B. Du Bois

By mawilliams1996

  • W. E. B. Du Bois

    W. E. B. Du Bois
    Du Bois was one of the most influential African American Leaders to emerge during the late 1800's. He was born in 1868 in Great Barrington Massachusetts. He started a good life as himself.

  • Early Childhood

    Early Childhood
    Du Bois attended sunday school with African Americans and white children. He didn't realize until he was older and was in high school that his skin color caused some people not to like him. Other than that he was a bright student and his school's principal told him to prepare for college.

  • College

    College
    After his principal told Du Bois to prepare for college, his local churches and residents raised mone to send him to college. Fisk University, an African American school in Nashville, Tennesse accepted him. After graduating college, he studied histor in Germany and at Harvard University.

  • Harvard University

    Harvard University
    This year is the year that he earned a doctorate from Harvard as the first African American to earn a doctorate. Two years later, he was appointed professor of history and economics at Atlanta University. This college was a leading African Amerian college where he taught until 1910

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    The Souls of Black Folk
    Du Bois came out with a book called "The Souls of Black Folk". It was one of his very first books and the only. In the book he expressed his dual identity as both African and American.

  • Civil Rights

    Civil Rights
    By the early 1900's, Du Bois became a strong supporter of the Civil Rights. He belived that access to college education and vocational training offered the best chance of progress for Afican Americans. Believed that African Americans should be poitically active in the struggle for racial equality.

  • Pan-African Congresses

    Pan-African Congresses
    He organized a series of Pan-African congresses that attracted black leaders rom around the world. He, himself became one of the most influential Afican American leaders. It was done to create greater unity among people of Afican descent.

  • His Death

    His Death
    W. E. B. Du Bois died at the age of 95. Two years before his death he joined the Communist Pary. Then after that he moved to Ghana and died there.