W.E.B.+DuBois

Born: February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington Massachusetts, United States Died: August 27, 1963 in Accra, Ghana W.E.B Du Bois was a great activist. He served as the intellectual foundation of modern day black protest movements. They called him W.E.B Du Bois because of his long name of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. Du Bois was also called the “champion” of civil rights . He was a very smart and was at the top of his class when he was little. He first went to college at Fisk University in the fall of 1885. Du Bois was so smart; he even went to Harvard for a degree. When W.E.B Du Bois got his diploma, he was one of the few people who got to say a speech. He earned many awards in education and he also like to write books, essays, and poems. I can connect to W.E.B Du Bois because of his awards in education and sometimes score at the top of his class. I also get some awards like the honor roll and sometimes score in the top of my class like a big test when I was little. W.E.B Du Bois got married to a woman named Nina. In October they had a son named Burghardt. Two years later, Burghardt dies so he only lived to be two. After their son’s death, they had a daughter named Nina just like her mother. His daughter lived longer than their son. Du Bois help found a lot of important things. He helps found the Niagara movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was also an editor of a newspaper called The Crisis. After a few years working at the NAACP, his boss fires him. Two years after he got fired, his wife Nina dies. Du Bois then marries a new woman named Shirley Graham. After he got fired, he also started to travel internationally. W.E.B Du Bois met with leaders of the Soviet Union and china. Then, after two years of traveling, he returns home only to find out that her daughter Nina died in 1961. After his daughter’s death, Du Bois went to Africa in Accra, Ghana. Two years later, W.E.B Du Bois dies in 1963. Du Bois only lived to be 93.

Work cited: Rowh, Mark W.E.B Du Bois Berkely Heights, NJ Enslow publishers, Inc 1999 print sorce