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Also Known As William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Born February 23, 1868 • Great Barrington • Massachusetts
Died August 27, 1963 (aged 95) • Accra • Ghana
Founder NAACP • Niagara Movement
Notable Works “Black Reconstruction” • “Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept” • “The Souls of Black Folk”
Subjects Of Study Reconstruction
Role In American civil rights movement • Black nationalism

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