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This was the day William Edward Burghardt was born in Great Burrington, Massachusettes .
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From high school all the way through extra years in college getting his masters in arts and his doctorate in history, W.E.B. Dubois accomplished alot and he was not going to stop there.
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On this Dubois was the first African American to graduate from Harvard with a Ph.D.
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W.E.B. Dubois among the other founders created the National Association of Advancement for Colored People.
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Around this time, he served the NAACP as its director of publicity and research, a member of the board of directors, and editor of the Crisis, its monthly magazine.
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The NAACP published a landmark report, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1889-1918. The report was the foundation used to end this brutal form of political and economic terrorism
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W.E.B. Dubois pasted away as a citizen in Ghana, Africa on this day at the age of 95.
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This is the day after Dubois' death, when the people of the south took a long march to Washington, D.C.
