- NAME: W.E.B. Du Bois - OCCUPATION: Educator, Civil Rights
Activist, Journalist - BIRTH DATE: February 23, 1868 - DEATH
DATE: August 27, 1963 - EDUCATION: Fisk University, University
of Berlin, Harvard University - PLACE OF BIRTH: Great
Barrington, Massachusetts - PLACE OF DEATH: Accra, Ghana - Full
Name: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - AKA: W.E.B. Du Bois -
AKA: William Du Bois Best Known For W.E.B. Du Bois was one of
the most important African-American activists during the first
half of the 20th century. He co-founded the NAACP and supported
Pan-Africanism. In 1895, W.E.B. Du Bois became the first African
American to earn a doctorate from Harvard. He fought for African
American rights and cofounded the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the
Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,
discusses the conflict between W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T.
Washington over how to advance the African-American race. Dr.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the D