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    W.E.B. Dubois was an influential African American civil rights leader who graduated from Harvard with a PhD, becoming the first African American to do so. He published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903, criticizing Booker T. Washington's approach to civil rights. Dubois was the editor of The Crisis newspaper for many years and wrote extensively on issues like Jim Crow laws and women's suffrage. Over his long career, he wrote many influential books and worked to advance civil rights through organizations like the NAACP until his death in Ghana at the age of 95.

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    W.E.B. Dubois was an influential African American civil rights leader who graduated from Harvard with a PhD, becoming the first African American to do so. He published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903, criticizing Booker T. Washington's approach to civil rights. Dubois was the editor of The Crisis newspaper for many years and wrote extensively on issues like Jim Crow laws and women's suffrage. Over his long career, he wrote many influential books and worked to advance civil rights through organizations like the NAACP until his death in Ghana at the age of 95.

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    W.E.B. Dubois was an influential African American civil rights leader who graduated from Harvard with a PhD, becoming the first African American to do so. He published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903, criticizing Booker T. Washington's approach to civil rights. Dubois was the editor of The Crisis newspaper for many years and wrote extensively on issues like Jim Crow laws and women's suffrage. Over his long career, he wrote many influential books and worked to advance civil rights through organizations like the NAACP until his death in Ghana at the age of 95.

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    W.E.B. Dubois was an influential African American civil rights leader who graduated from Harvard with a PhD, becoming the first African American to do so. He published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903, criticizing Booker T. Washington's approach to civil rights. Dubois was the editor of The Crisis newspaper for many years and wrote extensively on issues like Jim Crow laws and women's suffrage. Over his long career, he wrote many influential books and worked to advance civil rights through organizations like the NAACP until his death in Ghana at the age of 95.

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    W.E.B. Dubois – An American Icon

    W.E.B. Dubois, a Massachusetts born man that was greatly admired in his later years by

    many of his peers for his big steps he took for the African American civil rights. After graduating

    from Great Barrington High School he went to the University of Berlin finding out that he had a

    great passion in African American history. He later attended Harvard University to broaden he

    knowledge on the history of African Americans. In 1895, William Dubois became the first African

    American to graduate with a Ph.D. from the University of Harvard. After his Ph.D. he started

    teaching economics and history at the University Of Atlanta. In the early 1900’s, he published

    his first ground breaking book The souls of Black Folks. This book contained many attacks on

    the honorable Booker T. Washington. In Dubois eyes, Booker T. Washington was coward by

    selling his race short by trying to tell them that they aren’t going to be a important figure in life,

    so he told people that they should learn a trade to make themselves somewhat successful in

    life. Dubois thought this was wrong! He thought, Washington should be telling them that they

    should be trying to make something better with their life. Dubois was a newspaper editor for

    The Crisis. In October, 1911, he wrote about the Jim Crow laws and in one article “every

    argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women suffrage. Dubois kept on being the

    editor of the crisis until 1934 when he became the chairman of the Sociology Department of the

    University of Atlanta. He was active in the NAACP. Dubois was there representative at the San

    Francisco Conference which founded the United Nations. Dubois wrote many books such as

    The Philadelphia Negro, John Brown, Dusk of Dawn, Colour and Democracy. Dubois joined the

    communist party in 1961 and at the age of 91 moved to Ghana where he became a naturalized

    citizen. Dubois died in August 27 in 1967 and he was honored by a state funeral and buried.

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