W.E.B. Du Bois By pedromonaville 1865 End of US Civil War / 13th Amendement Feb 23, 1868 Du Bois, born in Great Barrington, MA 1877 End of Reconstruction era 1885 Berlin Conference 1894 Du Bois graduates from Harvard 1895 Booker T. Washington's Atlanta compromise 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson Mar 1, 1896 Battle of Adwa 1900 First Pan-African Conference in London / Paris Exhibition 1909 Creation of NAACP Period: 1914 to 1918 WWI Jul 28, 1915 US Occupation of Haiti 1917 Russian Revolution 1919 Versailles Conference / First Pan-African Congress 1921 First international Convention of UNIA in New York 1925 Publication of "New Negro" anthology by Alain Locke 1935 Italian invasion of Ethiopia Period: 1939 to 1945 WWII 1945 Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester 1951 Du Bois on trial 1957 Independence of the Gold Coast Aug 27, 1963 Du Bois, death in Accra Aug 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom