W.E.B.+Dubois

 His real name is William Edward Burghardt Bois and he was born February 23, 1868. He died August 23, 1963. He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. William went to Harvard and earned his doctorate there, becoming the first African-American to earn his doctorate at Harvard. He then later became a professor in history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. William is the co-founder of NAACP, also known as the national association for the advancement of colored people, in 1909. He and other civil rights activist opposed the Atlanta Compromise, which stated that blacks would work for and follow white people and their political rule. He was mainly against racism and protested lynching. Bois was also an author and he wrote autobiography’s, sociology, political and history essays, and edited the NAACP’s journal. William’s mother was part of the small group of blacks that were free in Great Barrington because she was from Dutch, African and English decent and her family owned land there for years. He went to the local public school with other white boys and when he decided to go to college his local church donated money for his tuition, he went to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

This is one of his most famous books that he wrote. Cassy Sanders, Conner Heller Fisk University, where Bois went to college.