W.E.B. Du Bois

By pedromonaville

  • End of US Civil War / 13th Amendement

  • Du Bois, born in Great Barrington, MA

  • End of Reconstruction era

  • Berlin Conference

  • Du Bois graduates from Harvard

  • Booker T. Washington's Atlanta compromise

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

  • Battle of Adwa

  • First Pan-African Conference in London / Paris Exhibition

  • Creation of NAACP

  • Period: to

    WWI

  • US Occupation of Haiti

  • Russian Revolution

  • Versailles Conference / First Pan-African Congress

  • First international Convention of UNIA in New York

  • Publication of "New Negro" anthology by Alain Locke

  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

  • Period: to

    WWII

  • Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester

  • Du Bois on trial

  • Independence of the Gold Coast

  • Du Bois, death in Accra

  • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom