African-American writer, sociologist, Civil Rights activist, and advocate of Pan-Africanism. His most famous non-fiction works include The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Black Reconstruction in America (1935).He was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University.Dubois and Benjamin Tucker were both famous, Massachusetts-born authors.

BEFORE FAME

When he graduated from high school, his childhood church collected money to support the cost of his college tuition. He subsequently attended Fisk University and, later, Harvard University, and went on to become both a professor at Atlanta University and a leader of the Niagara Movement.

PERSONAL LIFE

He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to Alfred and Mary Silvina Du Bois. In 1896, he married Nina Gomer, with whom he had a son (who died as a baby) and a daughter. Following his first wife's death, he wed playwright and activist, Shirley Graham.

The meaning of the name DuBois: Woodcutter

FUN FACTS

Non-Fiction Author WEB DuBois were born on Sunday, in a leap year, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 4928716983 days until WEB DuBois next birthday.

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