W. E. B. Dubois: Civil Rights Activist

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William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Civil Right activist, educator, and journalist, also known as W.E.B DuBois was born free on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington Massachusetts. DuBois’ mother Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois raised him in Great Barrington, without the help of his father. Great Barrington wasn’t characterized by the same amount of racial oppression as the South. DuBois excelled in school and pursued a higher education at Frisk University, an all-black college in the South, due to his financial situation. After excelling at Frisk University, he earned a scholarship to Harvard College where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree. Then attended the University of Berlin for graduate studies. In 1895, he became the first African-American