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William Edward burghardt Du Bois was born Feburuary 23, 1868, in Great Barringtton,Massachusetts, to Alfred Du Boisand Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois.

In 1895, Du bois became the first Afro-American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

After teching at Wilberforce university in Ohio, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dubois moved to Georgia , where he established the Department of Social Work at Atlanta University.

Du Bois, Along with Minnesota attorney Fredrick L. McGhee and others, help found the Niagara Movement with William Monroe Trotter.

DuBois with a group of like-minded supporters.

Du Bois was invited to Ghana in 1961 by President Kwame Nkrumah to direct the Encyclopedia Africana, a goverment production ,and a long-held dream of his. When in 1963, he was refused a new U.S passport, he and his wife, shirley Graham Du Bois, became Citizens of Gha Web dubois family tree!