W.E.B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963), black American civil rights activist, founder of the NAACP, first black student to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced ) (February 23, 1868 –  August 27, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95.David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism—scholarship, propaganda, integration, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."
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